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Is there a section to talk about Java ME? Apps, etc. (7)
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2008-03-05
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Is it possible for a shell script to get the modification date of a file? How?
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2008-03-05
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stat should be your friend...
filename=foo
date=`stat -c '%y' $filename`
or, to get seconds since epoch (more machine usable)
date=`stat -c '%y' $filename`
man stat on a your friendly neighborhood Linux machine will tell you more. Unfortunately, for some reason, stat isn't installed by default on the N8x0...
Martin
filename=foo
date=`stat -c '%y' $filename`
or, to get seconds since epoch (more machine usable)
date=`stat -c '%y' $filename`
man stat on a your friendly neighborhood Linux machine will tell you more. Unfortunately, for some reason, stat isn't installed by default on the N8x0...
Martin
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2008-03-05
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Ok, seems like "perl" is installed by default...
sooo.... why don't you use perl? It has a built-in stat command and should run faster for any reasonably sized script.
However, if you really want to avoid perl, you can use this in your shell script:
(this will give you seconds since epoch)
for more friendly output:
Hope that helps.
Martin
sooo.... why don't you use perl? It has a built-in stat command and should run faster for any reasonably sized script.
However, if you really want to avoid perl, you can use this in your shell script:
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filename=foo date=`perl -e 'print ((stat($ARGV[0]))[9] . "\n")' $filename`
for more friendly output:
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filename=foo date=`perl -e 'print (localtime((stat($ARGV[0]))[9]) . "\n")' $filename`
Hope that helps.
Martin
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2008-03-05
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Nice try, but as far as I can tell, stat is not even available.
Edit: Just read your second post. I may have to give that a try. Thanks.
Edit: Just read your second post. I may have to give that a try. Thanks.
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2008-03-05
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Perl to the rescue! I love perl. 