Well I’m trying to get the difference between two dates in Seconds.MilliSeconds The dates are in Zulu format I have tried these two approaches doesn’t work out for me Is there any better way to get the difference in Seconds.MilliSeconds In linux for Z format time zones Answer Suggesting Output:
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How echo grave accent symbol in bash
(_ is input, i think) Answer Escape the grave accent. It’s special to the shell and is one way (the archaic one) to do command substitution. As noted by @dave_thompson_085 an alternative is to use single quotes in lieu of the double quotes you used, or to specify the hexadecimal representation of the grace accent, by doing echo “x60”. You
How to fail a Linux command if it doesn’t output a certain string within a minute?
I’m using AWS Codebuild to setup a self hosted Github Actions runner. In my main build section, I am just running the command ./run.sh and this starts the self hosted runner, listens for a job, and then picks up the particular job. In some cases, these don’t actually end up picking up a job and just sit out there listening
How to grep multi line string with new line characters or tab characters or spaces
My test file has text like: I am trying to match all single lines ending with semicolon (;) and having text “dummy(“. Then I need to extract the string present in the double quotes inside dummy. I have come up with the following command, but it matches only the first and third statement. With -o flag I expected to extract
Difference between “${param[0]}” and ${1} in bash
I’m looking at some old scripts and I found some parameter assignment that I have not seen before. A while loop reads from a text file and passes the values to a function. The items in the text file look like this: the first stage of the function then looks like this: I have not seen this sort of assignment
how to extract part of log file bash [closed]
Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 11 months ago. The community reviewed whether to reopen this question 10 months ago and left it closed: Original close reason(s) were not resolved Improve this question I have a log
Bash match on any lines that have any number of whitespace up to #
I need to clean up a config file before a source it. I need to remove any lines that have Start with # Any number of white space then a # blank lines Remove (and including) # and everything after it if line starts with a string. Example config: I have this right now The problem is line 2, #
If condition met, yet doesn’t run in Bash script
Sorry if a silly question. I have a script that doesn’t behave how it’s intended even though a condition is met. My script is something like this: I’ve tried declaring the state variable in different ways but non seem to work; also tried [ $output = $state ] [ “$output” = “$state” ] [[ ]] but nothing works. I think
Print min and max with awk
Why wont this awk script work, where I want to print the min and max of an input by just reading the data once. I would also like to initialize the min and max variable with the first value of the data. Say I have a file I am using awk to print the min and max with: But I
Linux setting variables
I’m running a shell script into Linus and I have a unexpected behavior. It looks like it is not concat both strings but rather it is appending data at the beginning. Any suggestion? Regards Answer When the value of TOOLBOX_ROOT was set, it had a carriage return ($’r’) at the end of it. As a result, the value of the