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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Converting past date to seconds Post 302302329 by joeyg on Monday 30th of March 2009 05:14:59 PM
Old 03-30-2009
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This will bring you right to the seconds:
Code:
> stat -c %Z myfile
1238445913

or, more precisely, seconds since Epoch of last change.
%Y is for last modification
%X is for last access

From any of these, you can compare to the current time (or time minus 300 seconds), to see if a file meets the requirements.
 

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STAT(1) 								FSF								   STAT(1)

NAME
stat - display file or filesystem status SYNOPSIS
stat [OPTION] FILE... DESCRIPTION
Display file or filesystem status. -f, --filesystem display filesystem status instead of file status -c --format=FORMAT use the specified FORMAT instead of the default -L, --dereference follow links -t, --terse print the information in terse form --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit The valid format sequences for files (without --filesystem): %A - Access rights in human readable form %a - Access rights in octal %b - Number of blocks allocated %D - Device number in hex %d - Device number in decimal %F - File type %f - raw mode in hex %G - Group name of owner %g - Group ID of owner %h - Number of hard links %i - Inode number %N - Quoted File name with dereference if symbolic link %n - File name %o - IO block size %s - Total size, in bytes %T - Minor device type in hex %t - Major device type in hex %U - User name of owner %u - User ID of owner %X - Time of last access as seconds since Epoch %x - Time of last access %Y - Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch %y - Time of last modi- fication %Z - Time of last change as seconds since Epoch %z - Time of last change Valid format sequences for file systems: %a - Free blocks available to non-superuser %b - Total data blocks in file system %c - Total file nodes in file system %d - Free file nodes in file system %f - Free blocks in file system %i - File System id in hex %l - Maximum length of filenames %n - File name %s - Optimal transfer block size %T - Type in human readable form %t - Type in hex AUTHOR
Written by Michael Meskes. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU- LAR PURPOSE. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for stat is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and stat programs are properly installed at your site, the command info stat should give you access to the complete manual. stat (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 STAT(1)
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