Shell Programming and Scripting

In place of cat file you may want to try awk 1 file, if the problem is that the last "line" of some of your files is missing the terminating newline.

Keep in mind that most UNIX tools are designed to handle text files. Text files do not contain nullbytes and other control characters. If some of your files do contain these characters, then utilities like AWK may not work.

Regards,
Alister

Hi,
even for .txt files i am getting error that Stat not found :-( (its not missing the folder name)

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Is it possible that STAT is not installed in my system?(i read somewhere that 'to check if STAT is installed')..If it is not installed then can we get the file timestamp and append thatto record?

Well, almost everything is possible... even when weird.

Tried

Code:

which stat

?

However, I guess it would be of some help to know just a little bit about your system. Ehm... What's your OS?

There is no stat in /bin /usr/bin /etc /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/ucb /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin /opt/universal/bin ..
:-(
is there any other way???
Thanks

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if not in Shell, can we do the same thing in Perl? As I am sure that we have STATS in Perl :-)...Thanks

Code:

ls --full-time | awk '{print $6, $7, $8}'

gives time of last modification on my system (Ubuntu, bash)

Intead of

Code:

stat -c %y $item;

try with

Code:

date -r $item;

How should I join this code(jawsnnn's code) with this one..

Code:

ls -1rt /work/scripts/Ankit/scripts | while IFS= read -r item; do [[ -f $item ]] && { awk 1 $item; $(stat -c %y $item); } >> /work/scripts/acu/outputfile.txt; done

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Hi Lem,
I got this error:

Code:

date: Not a recognized flag: r         
Usage: date Ý-u¨ Ý+"Field Descriptors"¨