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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need Modification Time of a file Post 302543085 by Peasant on Friday 29th of July 2011 11:11:35 AM
Old 07-29-2011
AFAIK, you will not be able to get modification times, just last modification time (mtime in find).

If you want to check how many times files was modified in time interval, you have some choices :

1. Write a code to monitor if files changes (shell or C) and creates log file.
2. The app/user/whatever is changing the file will need to copy the file or code wise write somewhere that it will change it.
 

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touch

touch(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						 touch(1B)

NAME

       touch - change file access and modification times

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/touch [-acfm] file...

DESCRIPTION

       touch sets the access and modification times of each file to the current time. file is created if it does not already exist.

OPTIONS

       -a    Change the access time of file. Do not change the modification time unless -m is also specified.

       -c    Do not create file if it does not exist.

       -f    Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions on file.

       -m    Change the modification time of file. Do not change the access time unless -a is also specified.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of touch when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     touch executed successfully and all requested changes were made.

       >0    An error occurred. touch returns the number of files for which the times could not be successfully modified.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       touch(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)

SunOS 5.11							    26 Oct 1995 							 touch(1B)
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