Show time stamp

[eileen1017]

The find command:
system ("find /directory -name filename"
only return the full directory path where the file is belong to. How to make it show the time stamp too? Please help. Thanks.

 

[novawolf1]

Well this depends on the platform. HP does not have a built in -ls function in find from what I can see. You will have to use the -exec command with find.

AIX - find /tmp/junk -name test.txt -ls
196 28 -rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 25241 Mar 12 2001 /tmp/junk/test.txt

This should work with MOST versions of UNIX.

 

[novawolf1]

I have the info on HP as well....

HP => find /tmp/junk/ -name test.txt -exec ls -l {} \;

Hope this helps....

 

[eileen1017]

Thank you very much. This really helps. However, I run into another problem. The results returned from find command only display on the screen or stdout. How can I make it write to a file?

 

[MikeLacey]

eileen,

You can use the standard redirection facilities, you can push the output of most commands into a file, like this:

ls -l > /tmp/a.file

The portion in red, above, is the part that puts the output of the ls command into the file.



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[eileen1017]

Mike,

I've tried your command. It doesn't seem to work in my case.
Is ls -l > /tmp/a.file a perl script command, or do I have to include it in system () function?

Here is what I am trying to do. I issued command:
system ("find $dir1 -name **$a5** -ls"
I try to write this result to a file, not on the screen. What should I do? Please help. Thanks.

 

[MikeLacey]

Yes, you have to include it in a call to the system() function;

like this Eileen,

system ("find $dir1 -name **$a5** -ls > /tmp/a.file"


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