Re: awk 'system("date +%s -d ")'

On Feb 25, 5:06 am, "DanielC" <dnlc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I tried to use awk to convert time format, but got below errors:
>
> # awk 'BEGIN {system("date +%s -d " "09:14:03")}'
> 1203844443
> # awk 'BEGIN {system("date +%s -d " "2008-02-24 09:14:03")}'
> date: too many non-option arguments: 09:14:03
> Try `date --help' for more information.

awk 'BEGIN{ nowtime=systime() ; threshold=5*60}
{
 s = $1 FS $2
 gsub(/:|-|\[|\]/," ", s)
 gettime = mktime(s)
 sub(/.*/,"",s)
 if (  ( nowtime - gettime ) < threshold ) {
   print $0
 }
}' file