Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:50:15 +0000 From: "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.f2s.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Calculate the time of last modification of a file Message-ID: <20061227165015.GA38514@ariel.njm.f2s.com> In-Reply-To: <20061227155317.GC95520@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20061227155317.GC95520@ns2.wananchi.com>
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On Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 at 18:53:17 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I hope you had a merry Christmas ;)
>
> I am trying to determine the time of last modification of a file,
> on FreeBSD.
>
> The following code achieves the same on Linux:
>
>
> # AGE = (current time) - (time of last modification of "$FILE")
> # please check your systems 'stat' command!
> AGE=$(($(date +%s) - $(stat -c '%Y' "$FILE")))
>
> test $AGE -lt $DELAY && {
> echo -n yes
> exit 0
> }
I *think* what you are looking for is:
stat -f '%Sm' -t '%s'
There is probably a much easier way to do that, but I couldn't find it
in the five minutes I had to spare. :-)
Cheers,
Nick.
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