UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

As Perderabo implies you can access the exact timestamp of a file after downloading and installing the "perl" programming language. If you do not have "perl" already and cannot execute downloads we are back to using standard unix utilities.
Have you got a recent "perl"?

It's been a while since I used HP-UX, but when I did perl was always in /usr/contrib/bin. It was an older Perl, but HP needed it to run some perl scripts they had written. /usr/contrib/bin/perl was a required component of HP-UX, not an optional add-on.

/usr/contrib/perl was an ancient version. Again we need to know what the O/P has.

Hi.

FWIW, the perl code ran correctly for me. The system was:

Code:

OS, ker|rel, machine: HP-UX, B.11.11, 9000/712
Distribution        : GenericSysName [HP Release B.11.11] (see /etc/issue)
perl 5.8.0

 perl is at:
perl: /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/contrib/bin/perl /usr/local/man/man1/perl.1

cheers, drl

Hey Methyl,

My o/s version is B.11.31 and to answer your question - Yes, I do have perl on my server.

I didn't use perl because I am not too well versed with it....for most of my tweaking, I use standard shell scripts (which I was trying to do even now) and sed and awk..

But thanks a lot for the info that "When a file is more than 6-months old it is not possible to display the "updated" timestamp in HP-UX (or umpteen standard unix variants) with a basic "ls" command."

I am not a unix expert. All I was doing was writing a shell script to fix a recurring software packaging problem in my environment - It required me to check timestamp of a file (X) and display all files in the library which are older than X.

I tried ls and I also looked up for various file related commands over internet but I could only find variants of "ls -l" ...which didnt serve my purpose...

Thanks a ton for your help...

Perderabo,

I am a fan of all your posts and the thread you posted is exactly what I wanted. Thanks a lot.

We assume that you used "find /dir ! -newer filename" in the end?