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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to get timestamp of file into ksh script Post 302310503 by sniper57 on Saturday 25th of April 2009 05:59:20 AM
Old 04-25-2009
How to get timestamp of file into ksh script

Hi -
I need to run a script via cron which will do some ldapsearches. One of the search parameters will be modifytimestamp.

I need to have some way of storing the timestamp of the last time the script ran, and then retrieving that timestamp to use in the ldapsearch command (i.e. modifytimestamp >= retrieved_ts) for when the script next runs.

Any suggestions please? I guess I could "touch" a file as a marker before and after executing the ldapsearch but I am not sure how to get the timestamp of the file into the ldapsearch query.
Cheers
 

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tapset::timestamp(3stap)												  tapset::timestamp(3stap)

NAME
tapset::timestamp - systemtap timestamp tapset DESCRIPTION
Each timestamp function returns a value to indicate when a function is executed. These returned values can then be used to indicate when an event occurred, provide an ordering for events, or compute the amount of time elapsed between two time stamps. get_cycles Processor cycle count See function::get_cycles(3stap) for details. jiffies Kernel jiffies count See function::jiffies(3stap) for details. HZ Kernel HZ See function::HZ(3stap) for details. SEE ALSO
function::get_cycles(3stap), function::jiffies(3stap), function::HZ(3stap), stap(1), stapprobes(3stap) IBM
--- tapset::timestamp(3stap)
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