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# 1  
Old 05-27-2008
extract last modified time of file in form of YYYYMMDD
Hi All,

I want to extract last modified, seen in ls -l command, of a file and then convert it into "YYYYMMDD" format.

Any help regarding would be helpful

Thanks in advance...
# 2  
Old 05-28-2008
try this:
Code:
stat -c '%y' filename | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sed -e 's/-//g'

# 3  
Old 05-28-2008
I couldn't find "stat" in solaris - what is the path? Btw, since I'm learning python Smilie

File:
Code:
 Directory of C:\Tmp

05/28/2008  01:46 PM                 5 abcd

Code:
print "%04d%02d%02d\n" % time.localtime(os.stat("abcd")[-2])[0:3]

Should work in Windows & Unix/Linux provided you have python installed Smilie
# 4  
Old 05-28-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yogesh Sawant
try this:
Code:
stat -c '%y' filename | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sed -e 's/-//g'


Hi

I dont find "stat" in IBM AIX
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