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[Rinky]

how do i get the time stamp of a file in hh:mm:ss format
ls -l will give only hh:mm only..
i need even the seconds..
plsssss help

[spex]

Hello,

GNU 'ls' has the '--full-time' switch. It also supports colorized output, which is a beautiful thing. The GNU coreutils depot is available here:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/coreutils-6.7/

Alternatively, try the following perl construct:

perl -e 'foreach(@ARGV){$time=localtime((stat($_))[9]);printf("%-30s%s\n",$_,$time)}' *

PCS

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi Rinky,

Unfortunately, using ls, you cannot get this information.

if you do man ls
you will not find any such switch.

good luck!
kind regards
yogeeraj

[john korterman · Accepted solution]

Hi rinky,

You can also try this old resource-comsuming trick:

# echo | cpio -o 2>/dev/null|cpio -ivt 2>/dev/null|awk '{print $7,$4,$5,$6}'

regards,
John K.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi again,

Spex's perl solution works fine..

$ perl -e 'foreach(@ARGV){$time=localtime((stat($_))[9]);printf("%-30s%s\n",$_,$time)}' *

v_syt280_1.sql Thu Mar 30 08:19:02 2006
vknt1002.sql Thu Mar 30 08:19:02 2006
yd.sql Thu Mar 30 08:19:02 2006
ydcmtpfs.sql Thu Mar 30 08:19:02 2006
ydtest.sql Thu Mar 30 08:19:02 2006
$


kind regards
yogeeraj

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# perl -MPOSIX -le 'for (@ARGV) {-e $_ && print join " ",$_,strftime("%x %X",localtime((stat($_))[9]))}' /tmp /etc/hosts

/tmp 05/03/07 08:46:36
/etc/hosts 05/05/06 08:33:12

That is, pass as many file or directory names as arguments as you want.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# perl -MPOSIX -le 'for (@ARGV) {-e $_ && print join " ",$_,strftime("%x %X",localtime((stat($_))[9]))}' /tmp /etc/hosts

/tmp 05/03/07 08:46:36
/etc/hosts 05/05/06 08:33:12

That is, pass as many file or directory names as arguments as you want.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Rinky]

actually i dint want the solution in perl.
but John`s solution works perfectly fine.
Thanks John..

Thanks to everybody...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

> actually i dint want the solution in perl.

Then SAY SO in your requirements up front so that we don't waste our time. You asked for help and you got it --- this time.

...JRF...

[Rinky]

Ok.. one more query on ls.
in temp directory, there are files with filetype ABC and if i give
ls -lrt *ABC, it will give a listing according to timestamp.

But from other directories if i give
ls -lrt /temp/*ABC,
the output differs than the above.

y is it different?? any idea??