Re: Perl Breakdown

Interesting utility, though you need to navigate to the CVS browser to actually get the file.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/els/els/

Jared

On Saturday 25 January 2003 07:23, Jesse, Rich wrote:
> Having the same problem of inconsistent output from "ls" (and other Unix
> commands!), I grabbed "els" from http://www.sourceforge.net. I use "els -p
> +Gmsn +TMDY3", aliased of course, to produce consistent listings everytime.
> For an "ls -l" equivalent, I use "els -l +TMDY3".
>
> HTH! GL! :)
>
> Rich
>
>
> Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator
> rjesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI
> USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 5:05 PM
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>
>
> This will make Jared happy, I finally broke down and fumbled my way through
> some perl.
>
> function f_file_date {
> {
> print "#!/usr/bin/perl"
> print "print scalar(localtime((stat(\"${1}\"))[9]))"
> } > tmp.pl
> perl tmp.pl
> rm tmp.pl
> }
>
> This little diddy can be placed right in my .ksh script to get file
> modification times in a consistent format, I wanted to use "ls -l" but then
> it occurred to me that once the year changes the "ls -l" returns a
> different formatted date entry for files modified during the last year.
> Maybe someone can suggest a prettier method of doing this within a .ksh
> script without calling another script.
>
> - Ethan

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