any more, a system without perl is hardly a system at all.
it's kind of like a system without a shell.
Jared
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Subject: RE: Minutes Since Midnight 2000
Yeah that would work if I want to use the database but I try to write
things
in such a way that I can use them in other places and share them with
other
non-DBA types, thus the reason I am not using Perl or GNU date. Oracle-L
has some very good *nix scripters so that is why I posted it here, I get
faster better responses then many of the *nix lists. Thanks for
suggestion.
- E
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Just idea, how about:
SQL> select 24*60*(sysdate - to_date('00-00-00-01-01-2000',
'SS-MI-HH24-DD-MM-YYYY') ) from dual;
24*60*(SYSDATE-TO_DATE('00-00-00-01-01-2000','SS-MI-HH24-DD-MM-YYYY'))
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1602151.58
You can spool this result to a file and then use "cat | awk" to read the
number back to your script.
HTH.
Guang
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