The ls program will display mtime if you use "ls -l". And you can get atime or ctime with "ls -lu" or "ls -lc". But ls uses a strange format. It displays the month and day in all cases. If the timestamp is recent, it also displays hour and minute. If the timestamp is older than 6 months, it display the year instead of hour and minute. A clever script can reformat this to year, month, day, hour, and minute. But ls will not display the seconds. The gnu version of ls (which is usually the only version on linux) does have extended options like --fulltime. But these extended options are non-standard and won't be available on other versions of Unix.
The perl language is also non-standard, but perl tends to be available on most versions of unix. For example, a version of perl is supplied with HP-UX and Solaris. Perl can easily display the timestamps of files. Here are some perl one-liners to display atime, mtime, and ctime.
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:D i have a slight problem and would appreciate if someone could clarify the confusion.. i use find alot and so far i have done ok.. but it just struck me a couple of days ago that I am not quite sure what the difference between the modification time and the change time as in ctime and mtime and... (3 Replies)
i have used all forms of the unix find command.. and right now this is the only command i can think of that might have this option..:
if i use mtime i am looking at a time interval.. but if i wanted to find out intervals of access, change and modification according to when a file changed size... (4 Replies)
Hey,
First of all I want to know How do I see the atime of a file ?? Whats the command ??
I think ls -l shows the last modified time right ? Because when I use cat to read a file, the timestamp shown by ls -l does not change.
Its not ls -lu ! man ls did not help ! How do I see the last... (8 Replies)
Hi
I've made some test with perl script to learn more about mtime...
So, my question is :
Why the mtime from findfind /usr/local/sbin -ctime -1 -mtime -1 \( -name "*.log" -o -name "*.gz" \) -print are not the same as mtime from unix/linux in ls -ltr or in stat() function in perl : stat -... (2 Replies)
hi, in trying to maintain your directories, one needs to do some housekeeping like removing old files. the tool "find" comes in handy. but how would you decide which option to use when it comes to, say, deleting files that are older than 5 days?
mtime - last modified
atime - last accessed... (4 Replies)
I need to sort through a volume that contains video files by access time and delete files that have not been accessed over x days. I have to use the access time as video files are originals that do not get modified, just read
Testing commands on a local test folder...
$ date
Wed Sep 28... (10 Replies)
Hi,
ctime is the inode change time. If reading a file, its atime will be updated, which should cause inode member i_atime changed, which is an inode change. So ctime should also be updated. But if I try to ls a directory on redhat, only the directory atime gets updated, not ctime. Why?
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It is widely documented that on zfs atime updates the access time on zfs.
Where is the access time updated on Solaris 11.2?
If I create file atimetest.txt under rpool/export/home:
# zfs list rpool/export/home
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
rpool/export/home 13.3G ... (5 Replies)
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time::localtime5.18
Time::localtime(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Time::localtime(3pm)NAME
Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime() function
SYNOPSIS
use Time::localtime;
printf "Year is %d
", localtime->year() + 1900;
$now = ctime();
use Time::localtime;
use File::stat;
$date_string = ctime(stat($file)->mtime);
DESCRIPTION
This module's default exports override the core localtime() function, replacing it with a version that returns "Time::tm" objects. This
object has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the C's tm structure from time.h; namely sec, min, hour, mday,
mon, year, wday, yday, and isdst.
You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. (Note that
this still overrides your core functions.) Access these fields as variables named with a preceding "tm_" in front their method names.
Thus, "$tm_obj->mday()" corresponds to $tm_mday if you import the fields.
The ctime() function provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of the original CORE::localtime() function.
To access this functionality without the core overrides, pass the "use" an empty import list, and then access function functions with their
full qualified names. On the other hand, the built-ins are still available via the "CORE::" pseudo-package.
NOTE
While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.
AUTHOR
Tom Christiansen
perl v5.18.2 2013-11-04 Time::localtime(3pm)