Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 22:00:25 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order Message-ID: <20120103220025.823e078f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20120103204902.GG24192@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20120103211150.41f1934d.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120103204902.GG24192@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:49:02 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > If you ask for the date to be printed in "float" (F) format, it gives more > precision. The default is unsigned int (U) format. > > % stat -f "%N %FB" /COPYRIGHT > /COPYRIGHT 1306190895.046721049 Strangely, I only get a 000000000 "suffix" for any time stamp, no matter if I create the file or apply the command as shown above to an existing file: % stat -f "%N %FB" /COPYRIGHT /COPYRIGHT 1313951230.000000000 Am I missing some file system feature? Otherwise, this _exactly_ looks like what I'm searching for. It doesn't need to be a "human-readable" date representation. by the way, I'm running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE/x86 of late August 2011 here, file system used is UFS2. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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