[ale] Bash script help

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Wed Mar 12 06:40:51 EDT 2008


Doctor Who wrote:
> I'm trying to return the value of when the last time the root password
> was changed.  The script would do something like:
>
> 1) more /etc/shadow | grep root | awk -F: '{print $3}'
> 2) Take above value and add 1
> 3) Multiple the result by 86400
> 4) Substitute the value above after the @ below
> 5) date -d @XXXX +"%B %d %G"
> 6) Give me the output value of this
>
> I would like to keep this done using bash.  Any help appreciated.
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