Computer Related Logbook: Shell script Get the time difference

Wednesday, 12 March 2008

Get difference

date1=`date +%s`
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date2=`date +%s`
date -d "00:00:00 $(( ${date2} - ${date1} )) seconds" +"%H:%m:%S"

Barun Saha said...: Wow! I never knew we could use our good ol' date command in this way!; 9 February 2009 at 13:48
Anonymous said...: Very nice, except if you are working with Solaris :(; 17 March 2009 at 14:06
Anonymous said...: For Sun/Solaris: just put /usr/local/bin before the date command to use GNU date...; 17 July 2012 at 13:24