Re: stat question

[Elie De Brauwer <elie@de-brauwer.be>]

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