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Operating Systems HP-UX File used Post 303016475 by rbatte1 on Friday 27th of April 2018 12:01:16 PM

04-27-2018

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When you say used, how do you mean? The file information records three timestamps. Access, change & modification. The command stat and various flags can be used to display any or all of these and the manual page describes what each one is for. It might seem odd, but a change and a modification are not the same.

The flags are as follows:-

Quote:

man stat|grep Time
%x Time of last access
%X Time of last access as seconds since Epoch
%y Time of last modification
%Y Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch
%z Time of last change
%Z Time of last change as seconds since Epoch

I think:-

the modification refers to what you normally see as the file's timestamp with something like ls -l $filename
the access time is the last read or write operation on the content of the file (but this includes backups
the change refers to any operation that updates the inode of the file. This can be a chmod, and update of the content (because the modified time changes)

Does that help?

What format do you need the output as? Sometimes the time since the Epoch (1/1/1970 00:00:00) can be useful to do calculations with.

If you just need to find files older / newer than a known time, perhaps you could use touch with a timestamp to create a reference file and then the -newer /tmp/ref_file or ! -newer /tmp/ref_file construction of a find command.

Do either of these approaches help?
Robin

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getdate

GETDATE(3)								 1								GETDATE(3)

getdate - Get date/time information

SYNOPSIS

       array getdate ([int  $timestamp = time()])

DESCRIPTION

	Returns an associative array containing the date information of the $timestamp, or the current local time if no $timestamp is given.

PARAMETERS

	      o $timestamp
		-  The	optional  $timestamp parameter is an integer Unix timestamp that defaults to the current local time if a $timestamp is not
		given. In other words, it defaults to the value of time(3).

RETURN VALUES

	Returns an associative array of information related to the $timestamp. Elements from the returned associative array are as follows:

       Key elements of the returned associative array

       +----------+--------------------------------------+---+
       |   Key	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |		Description		 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |	  Example returned values	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       +----------+--------------------------------------+---+
       |	  |					 |   |
       |"seconds" |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |  Numeric representation of seconds	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |		  0 to 59		 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |"minutes" |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |  Numeric representation of minutes	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |		  0 to 59		 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       | "hours"  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |   Numeric representation of hours	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |		  0 to 23		 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       | "mday"   |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  | Numeric representation of the day of |   |
       |	  | the month				 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |		  1 to 31		 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       | "wday"   |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  | Numeric representation of the day of |   |
       |	  | the week				 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  | 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Satur- |   |
       |	  | day)				 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |  "mon"   |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |  Numeric representation of a month	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |		1 through 12		 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       | "year"   |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  | A  full  numeric representation of a |   |
       |	  | year, 4 digits			 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |	   Examples: 1999 or 2003	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       | "yday"   |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  | Numeric representation of the day of |   |
       |	  | the year				 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |	       0 through 365		 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |"weekday" |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  | A full textual representation of the |   |
       |	  | day of the week			 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |	  Sunday through Saturday	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       | "month"  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  | A full textual representation  of  a |   |
       |	  | month, such as January or March	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |	  January through December	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |    0	  |					 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |  Seconds since the Unix Epoch, simi- |   |
       |	  | lar  to  the  values   returned   by |   |
       |	  | time(3) and used by date(3).	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       |	  |  System	Dependent,     typically |   |
       |	  | -2147483648 through 2147483647.	 |   |
       |	  |					 |   |
       +----------+--------------------------------------+---+
EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      getdate(3) example

	      <?php
	      $today = getdate();
	      print_r($today);
	      ?>

	      The above example will output something similar to:

	      Array
	      (
		  [seconds] => 40
		  [minutes] => 58
		  [hours]   => 21
		  [mday]    => 17
		  [wday]    => 2
		  [mon]     => 6
		  [year]    => 2003
		  [yday]    => 167
		  [weekday] => Tuesday
		  [month]   => June
		  [0]	    => 1055901520
	      )

SEE ALSO

       date(3), idate(3), localtime(3), time(3), setlocale(3).

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