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Old 12-02-2010
reformat date from istat
I would like to determine if a file is older than a particular date. I found that istat will let me see the date and time of a file older than a year, but I need to change the format. Could anyone help me reformat the following date to a variable (a one liner would be great).

Output from istat - Last modified: Sat Oct 10 01:37:54 EDT 2009

capture date to a variable as - 200910100137 (yyyymmddHHMM)
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Old 12-02-2010
if you have gnu date this should do it:

Code:
MODDATE=$(date --date "$(istat FILENAME | awk -F "\t" '/Last modified/ { print $2}') " +%Y%m%d%H%M)

If you get date: Not a recognized flag, then we really don't have a 1 liner any more:

Code:
$ cat ISO2ymd.awk
awk -F "[: ]" ' BEGIN {
   D["Jan"]=1;  D["Feb"]=2;   D["Mar"]=3;   D["Apr"]=4;
   D["May"]=5;  D["Jun"]=6;   D["Jul"]=7;   D["Aug"]=8;
   D["Sep"]=9;  D["Oct"]=10;  D["Nov"]=11;  D["Dec"]=12; }
{ printf "%04d%02d%02d%s%s\n", $9, D[$2], $4, $5, $6; }' -
 
$ MODDATE=$(istat FILENAME | awk -F "\t" '/Last modified/ { print $2}' | ./ISO2ymd.awk)

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