how to convert a date time string to an integer in bash shell

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Given a string like '2013-04-06', I want to convert it to a integer as we can do in Java.I have no idea how to do this in bash shell.Does anybody know how to do this?Thanks for any help.

Accepted Answer

```
date --date="Wed Mar 13 00:18:06 2013" '+%s'
date --date="2013-04-06" '+%s'
```

Only works for gnu date.

how to convert a date time string to an integer in bash shell

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