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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Calculate age of a file | calculate time difference Post 302495939 by AlphaLexman on Friday 11th of February 2011 03:41:07 PM
Old 02-11-2011
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Originally Posted by worm
Now I just need to find out, how I can print the epoch time, when the file was created.

Any ideas, how I could find the epoch time of the file creation?
I don't believe *nix systems store 'creation' time. Only changed, modified, and accessed.
 

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strclean(1M)															      strclean(1M)

NAME
strclean - remove outdated STREAMS error log files SYNOPSIS
logdir] age] DESCRIPTION
cleans the STREAMS error logger directory of log files mm-dd) that contain error messages sent by the STREAMS log driver, strlog(7). If the option is not used to specify another directory, removes error log files in the directory. If the option is not used to specify another age, removes error log files that have not been modified in three days. Options recognizes the following options and command-line arguments: Specifies a directory for the location of the STREAMS error log files to be removed if this is not the default directory Specifies a maximum age in days for the STREAMS error log files if this not the default age of 3. The value of age must be an integer greater than or less than 3. EXAMPLES
Remove day-old error log files from a directory called FILES
One or more error log file or files on which operates. The mm-dd in the filename indicates the month and day of the messages con- tained in the file. NLS catalog for SEE ALSO
strerr(1M), strlog(7). strclean(1M)
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