> > How may one pretty print an epoch timestamp using date(1)? The date > > manual page gives me a headache. > > > > Essentially, I have the timestamp in a file: > > > > $ cat t > > 1117417465 > > > > ..and I want to print it in a standard UK format, such as: > > > > +%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%y > > date -r $(cat t) +"%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%y"
Oh my, it's really that simple? I think I must have tried just about everything ELSE as my twenty minutes of Failed conversion of ``1117417465'' using format ``%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%y'' date: illegal time format ...suggest. 02:44:25 30/05/05 Thank you! -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1
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