How can I grab the seconds value in a file timestamp as a string. 1

[ddeleo]

Is there a way to access/capture the seconds on the file timestamp. I understand that this timestamp is hour, minutes, and seconds, yet the ls -ls command only shows hour and minutes. I am using the Korn shell. Thanks!

 

[iribach]

use stat() in c or perl

 

[PHV]

Here an example (using perl from ksh):
file="/path/to/file2test"
eval $(perl -e '
($ss,$mn,$hh,$dd,$mm,$yy,$wd,$yd,$dst)=localtime((stat("'$file'"))[9]);
printf("DATE=%04d%02d%02d\n",$yy+1900,$mm+1,$dd);
printf("TIME=%02d%02d%02d\n",$hh,$mn,$ss)')
echo "$file:"$DATE,$TIME

Hope This Helps, PH.
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