file creation date including seconds

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Hi,

Is anybody can help me to get the file creation date with seconds?

-rw-r--r-- 1 opsc system 422550845 Aug 22 15:41 StatData.20020821

Thanks in advance

Krishna

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I don't know of any contemporary Unix filesystem that stores creation date/time at all.

Just modification time...

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an extention to LiveinFree's post.

as my perl book says the filessystem keeps the following times:
last asscess time, last modification time, last inode-change time.

you can get this info by useing stat.

man stat for more info.

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I do notice that your filename already has a datestamp on it....you could look at getting the datestamp that is used to create the file changed to include the seconds as well...

i.e.

filename=StatData\.`date +%Y%m%d%M%H%S`

It probably is currently set at (assuming it is scripted to set the date stamp on the file at the time of creation).

filename=StatData\.`date +%Y%m%d%`

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Sorry, I'm asking about file date&time below file date&time = Aug 22 15:41, here i will find only hh:mm, my question is how to see hh:mm:ss??????

-rw-r--r-- 1 opsc system 422550845 Aug 22 15:41 StatData.200208

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I see.... well in terms of creation date - the answer is you can't - it is not held at all. (Hence my suggestion about having the filenames changed to include the seconds).

If you're after the seconds for last modified - or last accessed....you might be able to do it if you can decipher this from the man page for ls (although that might only be for old files??)

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i tried from ls command, but could not get the seconds.

thanks
Krishna

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Getting the seconds via standard unix commands is very hard. The only reasonable way to display the seconds is to write a program in c or perl that invokes the stat() system call.