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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Equivalent command to 'stat' Post 302277030 by X9Tim on Thursday 15th of January 2009 07:46:24 AM
Old 01-15-2009
Data What is an alternative command to stat?
You have answered im_new's precise usage of stat - finding the size of a file - but have not answered the general question: What is the alternative command to stat?

I would love to get the extra information from the stat() call without having to write any C code

In particular, I'm using HPUX 11. There is no stat command available and I would love to see the modification times of files to the second

This is so I can work out the precise order of events when 2 processes may be affecting the same file at different, but close, times. I have a log file of what one script is doing, but have nothing from the second. However, the second process copies the file to is current location as it's final act and I need to know whether this was just before or just after the first script wrote to the file.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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