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Old 09-16-2011
Bug Need file timestamp without stat command

Hi all,

I want to check whether a file is not updated in last 15 minutes, for this i need to get timestamp of file, (yyyy:mm:dd:hh:mi:ss). I dont have access to STAT command Smilie.

Please suggest a program or command to do this .

Thanks,
Saravana
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Old 09-16-2011
how about in this way?
Code:
find . -cmin 15 -a -name "yourfilename"

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