Read Date/Time Information from a file 1

[jestrada101]

How can I read the date/time information and pass into a shell variable?

Many thanks
je

 

[pavNell]

#!/bin/sh

todaysDate=`date`
echo "$date"



date has several options to choose from. read the man page.
type man date

 

[jestrada101]

Sorry.. I mean reading a date stamp from a file.. like when it was modified.. created, etc?

Thanks
je

 

[pavNell]

oops, your subject header specified 'from a file'...

#!/bin/sh

ls -l | while read line
do
fileName=`echo $line | awk '{print $NF}'`
fileDate=`echo $line | awk '{print $6}'`
fileTime=`echo $line | awk '{print $7}'`

echo ""
echo "/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/"
echo "File Name: $fileName"
echo "File Date: $fileDate"
echo "File Time: $fileTime"
done

That should get you started.

HTH