Re: stat question

[David selby <debian@pusspaws.net>]

OK bit confused, normaly when a man page comes up, I assume app is 
there. Seems that I do not have app installed. Checked aptitude, there 
are a lot of stat packages, which one do I need to dpkg ?


web@debian:~$ whereis stat
stat: /usr/share/man/man2/stat.2.gz
web@debian:~$ man dpkg
(null): can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
Reformatting dpkg(8), please wait...
web@debian:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/stat
dpkg: /usr/bin/stat not found.
web@debian:~$ stat Desktop
bash: stat: command not found
web@debian:~$


Dave

Elie De Brauwer wrote:

> Frankly I don't see your problem 
>
> helios@kafka:~$ whereis stat
> stat: /usr/bin/stat /usr/share/man/man1/stat.1.gz 
> /usr/share/man/man2/stat.2.gz
> helios@kafka:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/stat
> coreutils: /usr/bin/stat
> helios@kafka:~$ stat workdir/
>  File: `workdir/'
>  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 8192   directory
> Device: 304h/772d       Inode: 671748      Links: 4
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  helios)   Gid: ( 1000/  helios)
> Access: 2003-08-02 08:55:49.000000000 +0200
> Modify: 2003-07-21 16:14:04.000000000 +0200
> Change: 2003-07-21 16:14:04.000000000 +0200
>
> -> only the date 
> helios@kafka:~$ stat -c %y workdir/
> 2003-07-21 16:14:04.000000000 +0200
>
> -> modification in seconds after the epoch 
> helios@kafka:~$ stat -c %Y workdir/
> 1058796844
>
> Can you be more specific about  _what_  you actually want ? 
>
> hth
> Elie De Brauwer 
>
> On Saturday 02 August 2003 10:07, David selby wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > A while ago someone suggested using the stat command to get modification
> > times for files etc, ls -al will give the info but I would have to do a
> > lot of string stripping etc ...
> >
> > I have looked up man "stat", confusing ... googled for it, confusing !
> > It is not a regular command, ie "stat" on the command line is a no go
> > though there is a man page for it.
> >
> > It appears to be a "pearl" module ?
> >
> > OK simple question. In a bash script can I use stat to get modification
> > times of files ?
> > If so what is the syntax ?
> >
> > Dave
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