Re: bash: get file modification time query

[Zhao YouBing <zhaoyb@cad.zju.edu.cn>]

Robin Gerard wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:32:25PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
>  
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> > * 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.
>
>  
Hi!
the $filename is used in shell script like the following

for filename in /home/foo do
   stat -c %y $filename

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