On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:32:25PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * David selby (debian@pusspaws.net) [030709 12:08]: > > Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls > > -l & sed ? I have a bash script that needs to get the info. Because the > > file size varies I cannot use cut, it may cut the wrong bit. > > stat -c "%y" $filename for me: stat -c "%y" filename works but stat -c "%y" $filename doesn't. -- Gerard