This question is not gentoo specific but really a more general question about date manipulation.
Like many people I use the `date' command to set file names that need to be unique by using one of the specially formatted commands, to output something like: img_080905_103343.jpg Which is img_$(date +"%m%d%y_%H%M%S").jpg or mnthdayyr_hrminsec This is used in file renaming scripts or the like. I want to find some tool that outputs a more fine grained reading. Maybe adding milliseconds to output so that the unique names can be generated in less than a second. I know about perl scipting for this but wanted something like the `date' command that is its own dedicated program. Is there a unix tool that outputs a finer grain of time segments? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list