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# 1  
Old 10-14-2010
Date of the file
Hi

i have a file with name a.txt when i use ls it give me the following date

Code:
 
ls -l a.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 atheerbi atheerbi  134180 Oct 13 16:29 a.txt

in the 6th,7th and 8th column i have following things
Oct 13 16:29
this just show month in character, day of the month, hours and minutes

can i list a.txt with any parameter which give me year, month in digit, day of month, hours, minutes, and seconds

my OS is solaris 10, help me
# 2  
Old 10-14-2010
Try this,
Code:
ls -l --time-style=full-iso a.txt

OR
Code:
ls -l --time-style=long-iso a.txt

# 3  
Old 10-14-2010
I don't know Solaris ls, but on Gnu ls you have the option
Code:
--time-style=

which you can set up like you specify the date command.

Example:
Code:
ls -l --time-style=+%Y.%m.%d" "%H:%M:%S
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010.10.14 10:18:08 a.txt

Check the man page of your ls command maybe or try to get Gnu ls.
Last edited by zaxxon; 10-14-2010 at 05:25 AM.. Reason: changed dots in time to colons
# 4  
Old 10-14-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by zaxxon
I don't know Solaris ls, but on Gnu ls you have the option
Code:
--time-style=

which you can set up like you specify the date command.

Check the man page of your ls command maybe or try to get Gnu ls.

thanks all

when in solaris i give the following command

Code:
ls -l --time-style=full-iso eG_20100805_0000504_110208
ls: illegal option -- time-style=full-iso
usage: ls -1RaAdCxmnlhogrtuvVcpFbqisfHLeE@ [files]

but i found its solution in solaris with following command

Code:
 
ls -e file

# 5  
Old 10-14-2010
If perl is ok:
Code:
#  cat stat.pl 
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use File::stat;


$file=shift;
$stats = stat($file);
($sec, $min, $hr, $day, $month, $year, $day_Of_Week, $julianDate, $dst) = localtime($stats->mtime);
$year+=1900;

printf("%04d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n",$year,$month,$day,$hr,$min,$sec);

Usage:
Code:
stat.pl file

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