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Old 06-08-2007
How do i collect Date & Time from Different Directories in a script
How do i collect Date & Time from Different Directories in a script

The script iam using for a single directory is :

ls -l | grep awk '{print $8}'
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Old 06-08-2007
Code:
ls -l /path/to/dir1  path/to/dir2 | awk '{print $8}'

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Old 06-08-2007
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Code:
ls -l /path/to/dir1  path/to/dir2 | awk '{print $8}'

A small Correction

Code:
ls -ld /path/to/dir1  path/to/dir2 | awk '{print $8}'

So this will list the timestamp of the directories alone, assuming eighth field contains the timestamp
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