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I need a way to list or just lookat the full time stamp on the creation and
modification dates of files.
The time MUST have hours, minutes AND seconds.

Thanks for a quick answer.
Karen.

There is no way to see the file creation time.

Quote:> The time MUST have hours, minutes AND seconds.

I don't think you can do this with command line tools; you'll need to write
a short program that stat()s each file, and prints the [cm]time fields in the
format you want.

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Like, for example, this:

        perl -ne 'chomp; print "$_\t", scalar(localtime((stat)[9])), "\n";'

  - Logan

Or if you want something with a **y* bit more error handling than that,
I offer the following from my ~/bin directory...

--- cut ---
#!/bin/perl
# Script to display the atime, mtime and ctime fields for one or more files
# accurately.

$rc = 0;

    warn "$0: Cannot stat $_: $!\n";
    $rc = $!; next;
    }


    printf "%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d  ",
      1900+$time[5],1+$time[4],$time[3],$time[2],$time[1],$time[0];
    }
  print $_,"\n";
  }

exit $rc
--- cut ---

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 [at] cam.ac.uk

Quote:>I need a way to list or just lookat the full time stamp on the creation and
>modification dates of files.

You can't.

"mtime" does mean "modification", so you're ok there, but "ctime"
means "change", NOT "creation".

e.g.:

% ls -l .profile
-rw-r--r--   1 jdl           814 Jul 20  1997 .profile
% filetimes .newsrc
File .profile:
        atime: Mon Jun 21 11:17:36 1999
        mtime: Sun Jul 20 17:58:57 1997
        ctime: Mon Jun 21 11:17:10 1999
% chmod o-r .profile
% ls -l .profile
-rw-r-----   1 jdl           814 Jul 20  1997 .profile
% filetimes .profile
File .profile:
        atime: Mon Jun 21 11:17:36 1999
        mtime: Sun Jul 20 17:58:57 1997
        ctime: Fri Apr 28 16:05:45 2000

See?

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