Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 21:35:34 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: date of a file Message-ID: <15303.43126.44123.116068@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <73720831@toto.iv>
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Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> types:
> i want to get the mtime of a file from a shell, so i can format it purty
> and do something with it.
>
> in gnu-sh-utils, i can, for example,
>
> date -r filename +%y%m%d-%H%M%S
>
> but, in freebsd, "date -r" says give me the current date in seconds of the
> epoch.
>
> what should i be doing?
date +%y%m%d-%H%M%S -jf "%b %d %H:%M:%S" `ls -lT filename | awk ' { print $6, $7, $8, $9 } '`
There are problably other ways to do it as well.
<mike
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