Re: Epoch to specific output

[atcroft]

This *seems* to do what you are asking, at least for my first test:

perl -MPOSIX -e 'my $t = time; print strftime("%m%d%H%M", gmtime $t);'

You could use localtime in place of gmtime, but then you would have to consider what you want to occur when there are DST (daylight saving time) changes.

Hope that helps.

[Anonymous Monk]

Your suggestion works well with a direct input for time. However, I was unable to substitute time with the $x variable.

I was able to get it to work though with the following code:

echo $x|perl -MPOSIX -e 'print strftime("%m%d%H%M", gmtime <stdin>)'

Thank you everyone for your help!

[aitap]

Pass your variable as an additional argument, use @ARGV to get it from inside the program:

perl -MPOSIX -le'print strftime("%m%d%H%M", gmtime $ARGV[0])' "$x"

[choroba]

Or just use shift:

perl -MPOSIX -le 'print strftime("%m%d%H%M", gmtime shift)' "$x"