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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How do you get the last modification date of a file? Post 302764015 by Nate18 on Wednesday 30th of January 2013 10:16:23 PM
Old 01-30-2013
How do you get the last modification date of a file?
I'm trying to get the date output to be in the form yyyy-mm-dd (e.g. 2013-01-18)
Code:
!/bin/sh
modDate=$(stat -c %y $1)
echo $modDate >> $1

When I run this on another file (by typing ./dateScript theFile.txt), I keep getting this message:

stat: illegal option -- c

What's wrong with my code here or how can I fix it?

What about the following instead? I was told that date -r does what I want, but I can't seem to get it to. Since I can't find much information on how to use the date command, I've put it off to the side unless someone else knows how I can get the last modified date from a file with the date command.
Code:
date -r $1

Any other simple suggestions to get the last modification date of a file so that I can append it to the end of said file would be great too. I've been trying to figure out some variation of this problem for a few hours now and at this point I have no new ideas and am completely stagnant, so any help is really appreciated.
 

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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
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OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
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       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do rtl layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --encoding=ENCODING
	      Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
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AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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