Jan Engelhardt wrote: > I wanted to get the number of seconds since the start of the day. > > echo $[`date +%s` % 86400];
How about: echo $[$(date +%s) - $(date -d '' +%s)] Brian _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils