Get filename date and time attributes

[BobAngilella]

Under the bourne shell, how can I get a file's date and time assigned to shell script variables?

 

[apeasecpc]

One way to do this is to pipe the "l" command through "awk" and save the output to the variable, like this:

variable=`l -T filename | awk '{printf("%s",substr($0,42,20))}'`

This formats the file date and time exactly like the "l" command with the "-T" parameter ("MMM DD HH:MM:SS YYYY&quot. If you need a different format you will need to modify the awk command to change this to the desired format (see "man awk" for help in awk scripting).