2009/10/13 Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk>: > In message <286f7bad0910130703v6680affbx95905a4400000...@mail.gmail.com>, > David > Kirkby writes: >>I've asked this on comp.unix.shell, but never got a 100% satsifactory >>answer. Perhaps someone here might know. >> >>Does anyone know how to get the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 on a >>Unix system using the shell - not compiling C code. I can't assume the >>computer has perl, python or a C compiler. > > On FreeBSD you can use the strftime facility in date(1): > > $ date +%s > 1255442977 > > Poul-Henning But it does not work on Solaris or HP-UX
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