Date Stamp on file down to seconds?

[Lisa Mauer]

Is there anyway to see the date stamp on a file down to the seconds? Not sure why, but we have a client who wants to be able to see the file date/time down to seconds...
Thx!

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Here's one method that leverages Perl's stat() and localtime() functions to do just what you want.

ftimes.pl -a myfile (for time of last access)
ftimes.pl -m myfile (for time of last modification -- default)
ftimes.pl -c myfile (for time of last change)

or
add -e to any of these and get the epoch seconds printed directly.

[Sundar_7]

Lisa,

You can also use cpio.

echo "filename" | cpio -o 2>/dev/null | cpio -ivt 2>/dev/null

But guess probably going to be little slower.

- Sundar.

[Lisa Mauer]

Excellent! Clay - Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for!

[Lisa Mauer]

Thanks Sundar! That worked also :)

[RAC_1]

For Sundar,

What time is it?? access, change, modification time??

[RAC_1]

Got it, it is last modification time. man cpio