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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,
In a folder, there are files. I have a script which reads the current date and subtract the modification date of each file.
How do I achieve this?
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Joe (2 Replies)
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First, oh great Unix gurus, forgive if this is a stupid question.
Unix/Linux is not my main thing but I have been programming in C/C++ for many years. I will do my best to be specific.
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all !
I have a piece of code that generates the date of one day ago:
/usr/bin/gdate --date='1 day ago' | awk '{print $2 " " $3}'
Nov 3
I want the output to be in the form :
Nov 03
What other operation should I do for that ?
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to get the date output to be in the form yyyy-mm-dd (e.g. 2013-01-18)
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When I run this on another file (by typing ./dateScript theFile.txt), I keep getting this message:
stat: illegal option -- c
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5. OS X (Apple)
How do i get the file modification date in number format (yyyy mm dd hh mm ss)
i used
ls -l pathname
but month is still in text "Aug" and year and time is not allways shown. time is show if it is in this year. and year is shown if it is before this year.
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi, I'm executing a script to check if a file has been modified on a shared folder.
I use this to start another script every time the file has been modified.
To do this I use the 'ls' command to get the last modification date of the file.
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi. I need help my programing friends :p
I need to list all the files with a certain name (for example FileName) by last modification date but only the one with the last date. If there are two files with the same name and same modification date it should print the both.
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello everyone,
I would like to know how to compare two files and modify any differences with some other data using shell script.
I think it would be better understood with an example.
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi i have a ques in Shell scripting:
ques: accept a filename as a command line argument. Validate the input and display the last modification date for that file.
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Good morning,
I would like to find all files of a certain type and display their name as well as their modification date.
In order to do this, I would do the following:
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