How many minutes have passed since the Unix Epoch

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How many minutes have passed since the Unix Epoch ? It should be January 1, 1970 ?

Let's say approximately until 1 Jan 2011… 5 865 696 000 minutes ?

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#!/bin/bash

# Minutes since Epoch until now:
((minutes=$(date +%s)/60))

# Minutes since Epoch until Jan 1 2011:
((minutes=$(date -d 'Jan 1 2011' +%s)/60))

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Convert formatted dates to seconds since the epoch

To do it your way, that would have to be something like:

POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 awk '
  {
    n = ""; r = $0
    while (match(r, /[[:alpha:]]{3} [[:alpha:]]{3} +[0-9]+ ([0-9]{2}:){2}[0-9]{2} [0-9]{4}/)) {
      c = "date -d\"" substr(r,RSTART,RLENGTH) "\" +%s"
      c | getline b
      close(c)
      n = n substr(r,1,RSTART-1) b
      r =  substr(r,RSTART+RLENGTH)
    }
    print n r
  }'

Bash – Searching a pattern in file names with number

With zsh:

tar zcf ~/file.tar.gz 20130<1-4><1-15>

If you have to use bash:

shopt -s extglob
tar zcf ~/file.tar.gz 20130[1-4]@(0?|1[0-5])

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