On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 03:40 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Monday 2007-11-19 at 13:06 -0600, Bryen wrote: > > > I'm trying to convert a value to an output to the user of > > minutes:seconds. > > > > For example: > > if $A=100 (for seconds) > > Then echo "This is 1:40 minutes" > > > > How would I do this? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> date --date="2007-1-1 100 minutes" > Mon Jan 1 01:40:00 CET 2007 > > > Maybe it can be refined, but you can see it does the conversion of 100 > minutes. > > - -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. >
That's an interesting variation of the date command. And I'm certainly going to keep that in mind should the need for that type of variation arise. But in my script case, I was looking to convert a value into minutes/seconds not relative to clock time. > > ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
