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parsing epoch timestamp to date

To get current unix timestamp we can do
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$ date +%s
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1471365644
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But how do we parse a file which contain epoch timestamp to date?
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$ echo 1471365644 | perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e'
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if we have it in milliseconds, we could remove the milliseconds part with
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$ echo 1471365644000 | cut -c -10 |  perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e'
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Tue Aug 16 18:40:44 2016
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Assuming your epoch seconds is 10 character. But if you have more or less, you need to do some other string processing first

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