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Operating Systems AIX Change a file's timestamp Post 302194600 by shibajighosh on Tuesday 13th of May 2008 08:34:17 AM
Old 05-13-2008
Thanks for the response. I used touch -t several times. What I wanted to know is, how to trap the timestamp of the file within a shell in a format which can be fed to "touch" command. I want to get the file's timestamp in YYYYMMDDHHMI format.

Thanks in advance.
 

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AMCHECKDUMP(8)						  System Administration Commands					    AMCHECKDUMP(8)

NAME
amcheckdump - check the results of an Amanda dump SYNOPSIS
amcheckdump [--timestamp|-t timestamp] [--verbose] [-o configoption...] config DESCRIPTION
Amcheckdump verifies Amanda dump images by reading them from storage volume(s) and verifying that the images can be parsed by the appropriate application (if available). For example, a GNUTAR image is passed to GNU Tar for parsing, and any errors (e.g., corrupt or missing data) are noted. The application runs on the most recent dump or, if --timestamp is specified, on the most recent dump with that timestamp. Note that the verification is local to the Amanda server; if the dump application is not available, or is configured differently on the server than on the client, then the verification will most likely fail. If a changer is available, it is used to load the required tapes. Otherwise, the application interactively requests the tapes. See the "CONFIGURATION OVERRIDE" section in amanda(8) for information on the -o option. EXAMPLE
# check the most recent dump amcheckdump MYCONFIG # check a specific dump from back in '78 amcheckdump MYCONFIG --timestamp 19780615 SEE ALSO
amanda(8), amcheck(8) The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/ AUTHOR
Ian Turner <ian@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Amanda 3.3.3 01/10/2013 AMCHECKDUMP(8)
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