if $A=100 (for seconds)
Then echo "This is 1:40 minutes"

How would I do this?

$ A=100
$ python -c 'import time,sys; \
  print "This is %d:%d minutes" % \
  (time.localtime(float(sys.argv[2]))[4:6])' - $A
This is 1:40 minutes


# A=100; perl -e 'use POSIX;print "This is ", strftime "%M:%S", \
gmtime $ARGV[0] ,. " minutes\n";' $A

This is 01:40 minutes

extended:

# A=3661; perl -e 'use POSIX;print "This is ", strftime "%H:%M:%S", \
gmtime $ARGV[0] ,. " minutes\n";' $A

This is 01:01:01 minutes

regards, Georg
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