Anyway to grab a file's timestamp (date, time, seconds) using straight
Unix Shell commands or ksh bultin?  (not GNU, not perl, not C)

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On 8 Nov 2005 09:44:14 -0800, bill wrote:
> Anyway to grab a file's timestamp (date, time, seconds) using straight

man stat

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On 2005-11-08, bill <quitspam@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway to grab a file's timestamp (date, time, seconds) using straight
> Unix Shell commands or ksh bultin?  (not GNU, not perl, not C)

ls(1) -- or stat(1), less friendly but will give you all three
timestamps in unix epoch format.

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>Anyway to grab a file's timestamp (date, time, seconds) using straight
>Unix Shell commands or ksh bultin?  (not GNU, not perl, not C)

Yes.  If you don't need the time down to the second, you can parse
the output of "ls -l".  Otherwise you can use the BSD program "stat",
if you consider that standard enough.  You can get any time format
strftime() will give to you.

% stat -f "%Sm" .
Nov  8 00:59:08 2005
% stat -f "%Sm" -t "%Y%m%d%H%M%S" .
20051108005908
%

Instead of m (modification time), you can use a (access time) or
c (inode change time).


Gordon L. Burditt

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