Originally published June 28, 2016 @ 11:29 am
The Solaris date command does not have many of the useful features of its GNU equivalent. A workaround is to use Tcl. This requires tclsh to be installed (which tclsh). You can implement this workaround as a function:
tcldate() {
d=${1:-now} # input date string
f=${2:-%c} # output date format
echo "puts [clock format [clock scan {$d}] -format {$f}]" | tclsh
}
Or as a script (ln -s /var/adm/bin/tcldate.sh /usr/bin/tcldate):
#!/bin/bash
tcldate() {
d=${1:-now} # input date string
f=${2:-%c} # output date format
echo "puts [clock format [clock scan {$d}] -format {$f}]" | tclsh
}
tcldate "$1" "$2"
Some examples:
# date ; tcldate "`date`+1month+12days+17hours+12minutes+30seconds" "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" Tuesday, June 28, 2016 08:52:39 AM EDT 2016-08-10 02:05:09
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