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Setdate
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A.P. Lawrence
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Article Date: 2003-04-14
The "setdate" is just a more user-friendly front end to changing the date and time:
echo -n "Enter Date or leave blank for `date +%m/%d/%y`: " read mydat echo -n "Enter Time or leave blank for `date +%H:%M`: " read mytime if [ "$mydat" != "" ] then mmdd=`echo $mydat | sed 's////g;s/..$//'` yr=`echo $mydat | sed 's////g;s/^....//'` else mmdd=`date +%m%d` yr=`date +%y` fi if [ "$mytime" != "" ] then newtime=`echo $mytime | sed 's/://g'` else newtime=`date +%H%M` fi date "$mmdd$newtime$yr"
This script works on Linux, SCO and most other Unixes.
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A.P. Lawrence provides SCO Unix and Linux consulting services
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