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how to know year create/modified files?

Dear all,
how to know created file time, include the year created/last modified?
if using
#ls -al only month date and time

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Quote:

$ ls -l
drwxrwxr-x 2 ww_tor irm 8192 Mar 2 09:09 monthly
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ww_tor irm 6802 Mar 7 04:56 p_JobStep
drwxrwxrwx 2 ww_tor irm 8192 Feb 6 02:39 reestabs
-rw-rw-rw- 1 ww_tor irm 38769 Nov 21 2005 sql_tor_p_68_tora38_mdl_7_cd
-rw-rw-rw- 1 ww_tor irm 1481 Nov 16 2005 sql_tora36_mdl_seris.dat

Here you can see for some of the files have the modified year. The files and folders which does not have year in above list are modified in the current year.

We cannot get the create time of files and folders.

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Here you can see for some of the files have the modified year. The files and folders which does not have year in above list are modified in the current year.

We cannot get the create time of files and folders.

Ohh.. thanks. I check in linux it's different i think, but in FreeBSD give me the year information.
Linux :
#ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12685573 Nov 28 20:11 pwmjkt-200611282009.tgz

FreeBSD:
#ls -l
-rwxr--r-- 1 root wheel 644 Mar 17 2006 temo_backup.sh

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ls shows month day time for current files (6 months old or newer) and month day year for files older than 6 months.

For OpenBSD, you can use the ls -lT command to force the year.

Code:

grunty: ls -lT tz.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 cschelin  users  15409631 Mar  1 18:50:22 2007 tz.tar.gz

In linux, you can use stat and just format the output to look like ls -lT in OpenBSD.

Code:

harpy: stat -c "%A %h %U %G %s %x" tz.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 cschelin cschelin 15409631 2007-03-01 19:16:34.000000000 -0700

It's not exact and just the stat command will return a lot of info:

Code:

harpy: stat tz.tar.gz
  File: `tz.tar.gz'
  Size: 15409631        Blocks: 30144      IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 901h/2305d      Inode: 32786       Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (  501/cschelin)   Gid: (  501/cschelin)
Access: 2007-03-01 19:16:34.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2007-03-01 19:16:06.000000000 -0700
Change: 2007-03-01 19:16:06.000000000 -0700

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See get the timestamp of a file in desired format

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alerting

how would i go about writing a script to alert myself when a file has been modified?

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