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From: "How Can ThisBe" <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How to return file date only?
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:57:51 +0000
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'stat' does not seem to be installed (at least by default) on a FreeBSD 
4.7-STABLE system

$ stat -f '%c' .
stat: not found

Any other ideas?


>From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
>Subject: Re: How to return file date only?
>
>On 2002-11-20 23:22, How Can ThisBe <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to return the creation date of a file in MMDDhhmmYY
> > format. I'm sure there is a command, I just can not find it.
> >
> > Under cygwin the command is `date +%m%d%H%M%y -r $FILE`, however
> > FreeBSD does not have this function with 'date'
>
>FreeBSD has stat(1).
>
>keramida@gothmog[01:50]/home/keramida> stat -f '%c' .
>1037835701


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