Hi!! Experts,
Is there any way to find the timestamp when the permission of a file was modified?? I mean no change to file contents.. Just the chnage of permissions.
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Hi,
How I change the timestamp of file to some past date
Let's say I have this file
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 16587 Apr 11 10:46 create_dev.sql
And I want to change the timestamp to Mar 10th 7:45 PM
So it should appear like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba ... (1 Reply)
Hello,
Alright solution:
I need to move files to a backup folder, changing the datestamp to the current day so that the file stays in the backup folder for the full 30 days before another script removes it. Obviously, any file I move in will preserve the timestamp which is what I *don't* want.... (2 Replies)
say i have these many file in a directory named exam.
1)/exam/newfolder/link.txt.
2)/exam/newfolder1/
and i create a tar say exam.tar
well the problem is,
when i read the tar file i dont find any metadata about the directories,as you cannot create a tar containig empty directories.
on the... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want to modify a file and then change the file's timestamp back to what it was before the modification. It should look as if the file has'nt been modifed. The entire operation needs to be done inside a ksh script. Can anyone suggest how I can trap a file's stamp in a variable within a... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to write a code for changing header date of a file with a date of 6 month back.
Below is the header date on which I am working -
20080531
I want to change it as 20071130
Please suggest me in the way like ,I can change any date in a file with date of 6 months back.
... (9 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new to unix programming. I am trying for a requirement and the requirement goes like this.....
I have a test folder. Which tracks log files. After certain time, the log file is getting overwritten by another file (randomly as the time interval is not periodic). I need to preserve... (2 Replies)
hello mates,
this is my first post. please help me out. i have got a file with some data in it. i am asked to write the timestamp as a header for that file. i mean the time the file created should be mentioned at the top of the file. i know we can use sed to insert a sentence but... (6 Replies)
I've been struggling with this one for quite a while and cannot seem to find a solution for this find/replace scenario. Perhaps I'm getting rusty.
I have a file that contains a number of metrics (exactly 3 fields per line) from a few appliances that are collected in parallel. To identify the... (3 Replies)
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PMDATE(1) General Commands Manual PMDATE(1)NAME
pmdate - display an offset date
SYNOPSIS
pmdate [ offset ... ] format
DESCRIPTION
pmdate displays the current date and/or time, with an optional offset.
An offset is specified with a leading sign (``+'' or ``-''), followed by an integer value, followed by one of the following ``scale'' spec-
ifiers;
S seconds
M minutes
H hours
d days
m months
y years
The output format follows the same rules as for date(1) and strftime(3).
For example, the following will display the date a week ago as DDMMYYYY;
pmdate -7d %d%m%Y
PCP ENVIRONMENT
Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the
file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configura-
tion file, as described in pcp.conf(5).
SEE ALSO date(1), strftime(3), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).
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