Thread: Modification date in shell script
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m_stolle is offline m_stolle
2008-03-05 , 21:53
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Ok, seems like "perl" is installed by default...

sooo.... why don't you use perl? It has a built-in stat command and should run faster for any reasonably sized script.

However, if you really want to avoid perl, you can use this in your shell script:

Code:
filename=foo
date=`perl -e 'print ((stat($ARGV[0]))[9] . "\n")' $filename`
(this will give you seconds since epoch)

for more friendly output:

Code:
filename=foo
date=`perl -e 'print (localtime((stat($ARGV[0]))[9]) . "\n")' $filename`

Hope that helps.

Martin
 

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