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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers comparing timestamp of a file with its touched version Post 302241101 by fpmurphy on Sunday 28th of September 2008 11:49:48 AM
Old 09-28-2008
If the stat(1) utility is available, then here is an example of one way of doing it
Code:
#!/bin/bash

FILE=./testfile        # replace with your file
stat1=$(stat --printf="%Z" $FILE)
touch $FILE
stat2=$(stat --printf="%Z" $FILE)
if [[ $stat1 = $stat2 ]]
then
   echo "touch failed"
else
   echo "touch succeeded"
fi

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GMSTRFTIME(3)								 1							     GMSTRFTIME(3)

gmstrftime - Format a GMT/UTC time/date according to locale settings

SYNOPSIS
string gmstrftime (string $format, [int $timestamp = time()]) DESCRIPTION
Behaves the same as strftime(3) except that the time returned is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For example, when run in Eastern Standard Time (GMT -0500), the first line below prints "Dec 31 1998 20:00:00", while the second prints "Jan 01 1999 01:00:00". PARAMETERS
o $format - See description in strftime(3). o $timestamp - The optional $timestamp parameter is an integer Unix timestamp that defaults to the current local time if a $timestamp is not given. In other words, it defaults to the value of time(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given $timestamp or the current local time if no timestamp is given. Month and weekday names and other language dependent strings respect the current locale set with setlocale(3). EXAMPLES
Example #1 gmstrftime(3) example <?php setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US'); echo strftime("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", mktime(20, 0, 0, 12, 31, 98)) . " "; echo gmstrftime("%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S", mktime(20, 0, 0, 12, 31, 98)) . " "; ?> SEE ALSO
strftime(3). PHP Documentation Group GMSTRFTIME(3)
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