1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have to capture the creation date and time stamp for a file. The ls command doesn't list all the required information. I need year, month, day, hour, minute and second. Any ideas... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, Sounds a simple request but I also need (would like) to gather the seconds too. I'm not even sure if this is held. I would think it is, somewhere??!!?! I belive that stat would/could work but I don't do C (we'll not yet). Is there any comamnd line util I can use? SunOS. Cheers... (7 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

i want to copy a filea.dat to a file name in the format of filea_yyyymmdd_hhmi.dat using something like DTSTAMP=$(date "+%Y%m%d"), which puts it in format filea_yyyymmdd.dat (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

can we change the timestamp of a file to old date. -rwxrwxrwx 1 root other 330 Jul 1 16:03 abc.txt it shows creation time is 16.03 can i change it to previous time :) (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi guys, Here my scenario is to find the files of previous days if the previous day load had not done. for that i created a file with time stamp and this file is created after the load completes. so every dau i search for the this file with previous days time stamp. i want to create a file... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I am facing small problem. i want to print file time stamp on which date file has placed in the server. i have given some code but its not giving the year. any help appreciated. regards rajesh. (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to convert normal time stamp to unix time stamp to a filename. coz our ssytem will pick depends on unix timestamp format . the filenames are as shown below fie names are stored in file say temp.txt. MLFG2_cDomHTTPstats_SAB15-1_1318482447.dat... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need help to read file in a directory on basis of time stamp. e.g. If file access in last 2 minutes it should not be copy to remote directory. Below is my script. #!/bin/ksh DATE=`date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H%M"` SEPARATER=" " exec < out_interfaces.cfg while read source_path... (10 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I wish to change time stamp of a directory with all its subdirectories and files on server. I am able to find following two ways but want to know which will be the better one. I have not tried anyone of them because I am not sure if it can effect my data: find * -type d -exec touch... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file hello.txt which was created today (today's date timestamp) I wish to change its date timestamp (access, modified, created) to 1 week old i.e one week from now. uname -a SunOS mymac 5.11 11.2 sun4v sparc sun4v Can you please suggest a easy way to do that ? (12 Replies)