Create a shell script that would receive as a parameter (from the command line)

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Create a shell script that would receive as a parameter (from the command line) the number of days from epoch (January 1, 1970) and display the date in a human readable way, please check the screen shot.

optech@localhost: N/Documents/cst488/exercises File Edit View Search Terminal Tabs Help x optech@local host /Docu x optech@localhost: /etc op host exercises]$ get date .s h 144 tech@localh 69 for a shadow date of: 14469 the human date is: Wed Aug 12 17:00:00 MST 2009 optech@local host exercises]$

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Hi,

Here is the shell scrpit for epoch time conversion:

#/bin/bash

echo 'Welcome to epoch converter';

echo 'Your converted epoch time is:';

echo $1 | perl -pe 's/(d+)/localtime($1)/e' ;

The part in bold in script.

Please copy paste the the script in text editor and save as <file_name>.sh

Give 777 permissions by chmod -R 777 <file_name>

The method to use the script:

./<filename.sh> 1190000000

Sample output:

./demo.sh 1190000000

Welcome to epoch converter
Your converted epoch time is:
Mon Sep 17 09:03:20 2007

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