On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:12:54PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > A little googling came up with: > > > > awk 'END { print systime() }' </dev/null > > > > which probably (?) works everywhere. > > On Mac OS X and FreeBSD: > > $ awk 'END { print systime() }' </dev/null > awk: calling undefined function systime > source line number 1 > $ Oh, well. The reference I saw was that the old Kernighan nawk had it, but that seems not to be the case: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/ "date +%s" seems to work on OS X, and so presumably on other BSDs. No clue what would work on stuff like SunOS, AIX, etc. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html