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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare file dates before copy Post 303021428 by Neo on Thursday 9th of August 2018 08:56:22 AM
Old 08-09-2018
Use the utility in your script (depends on the shell or script you are using) and attach it to the filename.

When you are asking technical questions, you will get faster and better answers, and not waste others' time, by providing the details of what you are doing.

operating system? scripting language (bash, PHP, ksh, etc)? and other details.

If we have to reply back and forth many times, just to get basic info, it is a waste of both of our time.
 

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times(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          times(1)

NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh times ksh times DESCRIPTION
sh Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell. ksh Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell. On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways: 1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes. 2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments. 3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort. 4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari- able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not performed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)
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