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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to find ot ctime , mtime ,atime Post 302084306 by nilesrex on Thursday 10th of August 2006 10:37:36 AM
Old 08-10-2006
when I do the execute ls -l command I get the long listing of the files/dir


what I am after is how to get the ctime,mtime and atime for a file.

/home/den/sedscripts> ls -lc
total 48
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dhawalen ccm_scd 23 Aug 10 10:17 ouput
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dhawalen ccm_scd 147 Aug 10 10:27 sedscript
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dhawalen ccm_scd 134 Aug 10 10:17 testdata

is there any way to find out the same.

also if I want to know why year file in created how would I know tht as above dosent say any thing about year ??
 

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CAL_FROM_JD(3)								 1							    CAL_FROM_JD(3)

cal_from_jd - Converts from Julian Day Count to a supported calendar

SYNOPSIS
array cal_from_jd (int $jd, int $calendar) DESCRIPTION
cal_from_jd(3) converts the Julian day given in $jd into a date of the specified $calendar. Supported $calendar values are CAL_GREGORIAN, CAL_JULIAN, CAL_JEWISH and CAL_FRENCH. PARAMETERS
o $jd - Julian day as integer o $calendar - Calendar to convert to RETURN VALUES
Returns an array containing calendar information like month, day, year, day of week, abbreviated and full names of weekday and month and the date in string form "month/day/year". EXAMPLES
Example #1 cal_from_jd(3) example <?php $today = unixtojd(mktime(0, 0, 0, 8, 16, 2003)); print_r(cal_from_jd($today, CAL_GREGORIAN)); ?> The above example will output: Array ( [date] => 8/16/2003 [month] => 8 [day] => 16 [year] => 2003 [dow] => 6 [abbrevdayname] => Sat [dayname] => Saturday [abbrevmonth] => Aug [monthname] => August ) SEE ALSO
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