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Epoch dates for the start and end of the year/month/day Convert seconds to days, hours and minutes What is epoch time? The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap seconds (in ISO 8601: 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z). Literally speaking the epoch is Unix time 0 (midnight 1-1-1970), but 'epoch' is often used as a synonym for 'Unix time'. Many Unix systems store epoch dates as a signed 32-bit integer, which might cause problems on January 19, 2038 (known as the Year 2038 problem or Y2038).
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EFFICIENT COMMANDS
In anytime I see someone code
inefficiently. Here are three of the
most common mistakes, followed by a
better way to do the same thing.
Bad: cat somefile | grep something
Better: grep something somefile
Why: You're running one program (grep) instead of two (cat and grep).
Bad: ps -ef | grep something | grep -v grep
Better: ps -ef | grep [s]omething
Why: You're running two commands (grep) instead of three (ps
and two greps).
Bad: cat /dev/null > somefile
Better: > somefile
Why: You're running a command (cat) with I/O redirection,
instead of just redirection.
Although the bad way will have the
same result, the good way is far
faster. This may seem trivial, but
the benefits will really show when
dealing with large files or loops.
