I know that commands like "bpmedialist -l" will still show the dates in
seconds past the epoch.  All of my scripts on NT/2000 are in Korn.  As you
said, with slight modifications they would all work on UNIX as well.

I was asking how to get the CURRENT date/time... ???

NetBackup has a command bpps... which is like ps but only shows NetBackup
stuff.  If for some reason you didn't have ps on your box (for instance, an
NT/2000 box without any additional shells or utilities), you could use bpps in
some cases.  I was looking for something similar to this to give me current
date/time in seconds.

I don't have "date +%s" (gnu-date) or "systime()" from gawk available.  I was
hoping NetBackup could do this for me.  I ended up using PERL... thanks Peter!


- Scott



                                                                                
                                       
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YES YOU CAN.

All of my scripts from Unix work, with slight modification, on NT with MKS
toolkit.

David

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Can I use any NetBackup commands to get the current date in seconds... the
same way "bpmedialist -l" shows it for expiration date and last write date.

I'm using Korn shell on Windows 2000 (MKS ToolKit).


Thanks,

Scott

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