#!/usr/bin/env bash set -e (( $# > 0 )) || exit 1 # Displays the time since $1 in a human readable format (e.g. 4h 25m 55s). If given a # file, the modified time is used. If $1 == "--", then this script acts as a converter, # converting $2 into human a readable format, e.g. since -- 72 #=> 1m 12s # TODO: A help fallback # TODO: Options parsing # `date` on OSX does not have the --date parameter date=date if [[ "$OSTYPE" == darwin* ]]; then date=gdate else echo "Unsupported system" exit 1 fi # If given a file, give time since last modification (( $# == 1 )) && [[ -f "$*" ]] && arg=reference || arg=date args="$*" if [[ "$1" == "--" ]]; then t="$2" else now=$(${date} +%s) then=$(${date} --$arg="$*" +%s) # Show full target date echo $(${date} --date="@$then") t=$(( $now - $then )) fi # Bash doesn't support floating point arithmetic like zsh does, therefore: bc < 0) print weeks, "w " if (days > 0) print days, "d " if (hours > 0) print hours, "h " if (minutes > 0) print minutes, "m " print seconds, "s" EOF