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How to find last modified date of a file [message #160424]

Sat, 25 February 2006 08:27

mrpranab
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Registered: March 2005

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Hi Everyone,

Can you tell me which command I will use to see the last modified date of a file.

I am using crontab for auto mailing purpose to the end-user.How can I know the last run time of the particular shell script file. Which command I will use for it?

Thanks & Regards
Pranab

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Re: How to find last modified date of a file [message #160433 is a reply to message #160424]

Sat, 25 February 2006 12:42

BlackSwan
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Registered: January 2009
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>Can you tell me which command I will use to see the last modified date of a file.

A script is NOT modified when it runs.
The question above is totally different than the one below.

>How can I know the last run time of the particular shell script file.

>Which command I will use for it?
If you really need this information, I suggest you modify the
script such that is does something like

$ date > /tmp/last_run_time.lis

then the contents of this file contains your answer.

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Re: How to find last modified date of a file [message #160439 is a reply to message #160433]

Sun, 26 February 2006 00:31

mrpranab
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Registered: March 2005

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Hi,

Actually I have two different queries.These are:

Q.1.Can you tell me which command I will use to see the last modified date of a file.

Q.2.I am using crontab for auto mailing purpose to the end-user.How can I know the last run time of the particular shell script file. Which command I will use for it?

Thanks
Pranab

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Re: How to find last modified date of a file [message #161188 is a reply to message #160439]

Thu, 02 March 2006 08:28

kshkid
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Registered: November 2005

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mrpranab wrote on Sun, 26 February 2006 00:31

For last modified time; upon modification itself current time would be stamped to inode entry of the particular file, you cannot just retrieve the last modified time you would be having only one modified time and that one would be available in inode and retrieve it as ls -lrt

for the time when script is last run ls -lut

u - usage time

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