Reading Timestamp and Comparing timestamp

[annay121]

I am relatively new to shell scripting.

I would like to know how to read the timestamp of a given file present on
a) Unix m/c
b) FTP server
Also, how do i compare two timestamps that I have ?

 

[PHV]

A starting point in ksh with Perl:
file="/path/to/givenfile"
eval $(perl -e '
($ss,$mn,$hh,$dd,$mm,$yy,$wd,$yd,$dst)=localtime((stat("'$file'"))[9]);
printf("DATE=%04d%02d%02d\n",$yy+1900,$mm+1,$dd);
printf("TIME=%02d%02d%02d\n",$hh,$mn,$ss)')
echo "$file:"$DATE,$TIME

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[annay121]

Thanks PHV but I am not familiar with perl and looks like we have got an syntax error.When I run the script it says `(' unexpected.

I guess this code was for comparing timestamps (Pardon my foolishness but I have started to learn scripting only a couple of days back)

Also,will this work to get the timestamp from the FTP server ?

 

[PHV]

What shell are you using ?
The $(command) syntax is the same as `command`
For the FTP issue I'm afraid you have to parse the output of a DIR command.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[annay121]

I am using the Bourne shell.

How does the modtime <filename> work fo getting the timestamp from the FTP Server ?