Hey what can I say, I am a ksh bigot :)
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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
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
Post, Ethan
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:16 PM
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Subject: Minutes Since Midnight 2000
I have a very clunky way of calculating the # of minutes in shell since
2000. This allows me to write the value to a variable and then do the math
later in a scrip
I have a very clunky way of calculating the # of minutes in shell since
2000. This allows me to write the value to a variable and then do the math
later in a script to figure out how long a job ran, an alert has been
trigger etc...For those of you working in shell you know date math is not so
easy
