Call and store response from a url using bash script

#!/bin/bash

## generate random string of length 18
function randpass
{
        echo `</dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c18`
}

## get current time stamp
timestamp=$(date  +%s);
sessionId="$(randpass).$(randpass).$timestamp";
privateKey='test';
 
## get substring of sessionId from 0 to 5 characters.
sessionIdPart=${sessionId:0:5};
systemKeyPart=${privateKey:0:4};

## reverse string and store in a variable
word="$(echo "$sessionIdPart" | rev)$(echo "$systemKeyPart" | rev)";
word="$word$sessionId$privateKey";
 
## make a string md5
hash=`echo -n "$word" | md5sum | awk '{print $1}'`;
hash=${hash:0:10};
breakRest="securedSessionKey=$sessionId&securedHash=$hash";
 
saveFile=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %T"); 
## saveFile would be '2013-08-25 19:23:28'

## calling a url using 'curl' and store response to some file.
curl -s -L -o "$saveFile.html" "http://domain.com/getStudent?$breakRest" &
## "&" sign at the end means run curl in background.

exit 1;

Get Unix timestamp in Java, Python, Erlang, JavaScript, Php

To Get Unix timestamp value in seconds
Java:

long timestamp = System.currentTimeMillis()/1000

Python:

import time timestamp = int(time.time())

Erlang:

{Mega, Secs, _} = now(), Timestamp = Mega*1000000 + Secs,

JavaScript:

var ts = Math.floor(Date.now()/1000); // You can also use new Date().getTime()/1000 but this one is faster Php: $stamp = time();