[SOLVED] Help with seconds in a guessing game

[layne2kim]

Hi, I'm a total newbie and have this guessing game assignment. I have it done for the most part, but my problem is seconds. I'm supposed to use the seconds from the date as my random number, then have it say if it's higher or lower. The way I did it was using
number=$(date | cut -c 18-19)

The problem is that when the number is low, under 10, you have to enter 01-09, instead of just 1-9. I know there is a date command that is supposed to use the seconds, with the %S but I don't know to write it? Here is what I have written.


#!/bin/bash
# A number guessing game
number=$(date | cut -c 18-19)
guess=1
echo "Guess a number between 0 and 59:"
read numberent
# start loop
while [ $numberent != $number ]
do echo $numberent $number
if test $numberent -gt $number
then
echo "Too large, try again:"
else
echo "Too small, try again:"
# this exits the while loop
fi
read numberent
let guess=guess+1
done
echo "You are a winner, it took $guess guesses"

[yancek]

Do you mean the unix timestamp, second from 0101-1970: date +%s
Don't know how you would use it in your script but that output seconds from that date like: linux-cjkf ~]$ date +%s
1291693235

[kakariko81280]

Sorry guys, homework questions are against the forum rules

[layne2kim]

I can understand not answering if I was asking for the whole script, but I had it done except for one thing that was working, but just not how I wanted.

The answer though I found was date +%S but you have to add `date +%S` and then you can enter 1-9 instead of 01-09.