Speakers: William Smith
Level: Presentation
Excerpt: Let’s spend a few minutes deep-diving into the date command (and some related commands) for scripts.
Description: Let’s spend a few minutes deep-diving into the date command (and some related commands), a powerful addition to shell scripts for:
• Timing when events will occur
• Evaluating that events may have already occurred
• Timing the duration of events or commands
• Logging
• Other nifty stuff
I’ll quickly cover some examples and techniques for incorporating dates and times into your work.
About the speaker
William Smith
Bill is a Partner Program Manager with Jamf, providing certification and training for partners.
In his travels visiting with hundreds of customers across the globe to help develop solutions for their unique problems, he picks up a few tips and tricks along the way and enjoys sharing them. He’s been supporting Macs and their users for more than 25 years.
Bill enjoys teaching and writing about tech. He’s spoken at Jamf Nation User Conference, MacIT, Penn State MacAdmins and other conferences, and he frequently delivers technical webinars to help support his customers.