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)
I am trying to insert a line with a date stamp in a file that is used to monitor activity in one of our directories. By doing this, I want to grep that file each day and go to the last entry for each time a error occurred and pull all errors generated if any exist. If error exists I want that error... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Plz suggest me how can i change the date of a file.
Suppose my file has been created in some date and i want to give it present date.
How can i do this???? (2 Replies)
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)
Hi,
As i know , we can change the time stamp of a file by touch command, i did change in a file and it is looking as given
# ls -l abcd
-rw-r--r-- 1 batsoqa sicusers 0 Feb 17 2010 abcd
actually i want to see the output like this
-rw-r--r-- 1 batsoqa sicusers ... (3 Replies)
Hi
When i do ls -ltr <file1> then it shows me the date and time of the file
if - for whatever reason file has future date/time stamp then ls -ltr is not showing the time, it just shows only date part ... even if time is ahead by 2 hr than current time.
suppose a file was copied from INDIA... (3 Replies)
Hi
I use "touch -t xxxxxxxx" command to set date/time stamp of a file. My requirement is to read the date/time stamp of a file and apply it to another file.
Is there anyway to do it simple instead of manually taking date/stamp of first file?
TIA
Prvn (2 Replies)
Hi!
Please see our current script:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
if (egrep "This string is found in the log" /a01/bpm.log)
then
mailx -s "Error from log" me@email.com, him@email.com </a01/bpm.log
fi
To the above existing script, we need to add the following change:
1) After finding the string,... (7 Replies)
hi,
i have a Archive directory in which files are archived or stored with date and time stamp to prevent over writing.
example:
there are 5 files
s1.txt
s2.txt
s3.txt
s4.txt
s5.txt
while moving these files to archive directory, date and time stamp is added.
of format `date... (9 Replies)
Hi ,
I want to add a new column 'current_time stamp' in my existing csv file with current time stamp for all the records.I tried something this but this is printing 0 with date & time and printed date one line above header.Please help
awk -F "," 'BEGIN{ OFS="," } {$6=system("date... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: netdbaind
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touch
TOUCH(1) User Commands TOUCH(1)NAME
touch - change file timestamps
SYNOPSIS
touch [OPTION]... FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.
A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h is supplied.
A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to change the times of the file associated with standard output.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a change only the access time
-c, --no-create
do not create any files
-d, --date=STRING
parse STRING and use it instead of current time
-f (ignored)
-h, --no-dereference
affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink)
-m change only the modification time
-r, --reference=FILE
use this file's times instead of current time
-t STAMP
use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time
--time=WORD
change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.
DATE STRING
The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or
even "next Thursday". A date string may contain items indicating calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time, rela-
tive date, and numbers. An empty string indicates the beginning of the day. The date string format is more complex than is easily docu-
mented here but is fully described in the info documentation.
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report touch translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/touch>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) touch invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 TOUCH(1)