[Sunhelp] EXACT!!! creation time of files

[Wolfgang Engelien]

WONDERFUL !!!!

Thats the answer I have waited for.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!

Wolfgang


At 10:29 AM 8/31/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:59:40AM -0400, Wolfgang Engelien wrote:
>
>| It is very kind of you to say that, but it
>| would be even more kind to tell me the EXACT
>| COMMAND, WHICH YOU HAVE TESTED BEFOR. Any ls
>| command I tried does not give me an EXACT
>| time as I have mentioned it. Here again,
>| 
>| I want to be able to say for example:
>| File X was created in December 6th 1998 14:05:45
>| 	or
>| file X was created 882988997 SECONDS after January 1st 1970.
>
>Obviously you've missed two things -
>
>1) obviously, accurate to the second is not EXACT.
>2) the number that you get is not guaranteed to be the creation time -
>   just that it often is.  And it's the best/only number that's available.
>
>That being said, here is the EXACT COMMAND, WHICH HAS BEEN TESTED
>BEFORE!
>
>   % perl -e '$c=(stat "/etc/hosts")[10] ; print "$c\n"'
>   935730232
>
>   % perl -e '$c= scalar localtime( (stat "/etc/hosts")[10]) ; print "$c\n"'
>   Fri Aug 27 00:03:52 1999
>
>And if you don't have perl, get it.
>
>-- 
>Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzy.com
>
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