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'stat' vs 'date' w/re string manipulation in Bash scripts

Posted 11-17-2011 at 06:31 PM by SilversleevesX
Updated 11-17-2011 at 06:42 PM by SilversleevesX
I started browsing the Web tonight looking to do something I had been doing in my Bash scripts with stat and three more lines of string cutting in one line instead.

I had been using stat -c &y file to get a file's modification date in scripts, but I have never liked the nine-digit "blink-of-an-eye" part of the return on that command. My method up till now has been to eliminate it with lines like these:
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gdate=$(stat -c %y foo.jpg)
pqdate=$(echo ${gdate%.*})
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Same advice produces the same results

Posted 08-19-2010 at 09:41 PM by SilversleevesX
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post4071846

Read the first reply, then read here:

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice (or more times) and expecting different results, then the question becomes: "Who's the more insane? The person who follows the advice, knowing in advance it probably won't make any difference or work out the way they want it to, or the person who, after...
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Same advice produces the same results

Posted 08-19-2010 at 09:41 PM by SilversleevesX
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post4071846

Read the first reply, then read here:

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice (or more times) and expecting different results, then the question becomes: "Who's the more insane? The person who follows the advice, knowing in advance it probably won't make any difference or work out the way they want it to, or the person who, after...
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XRef to new thread on unix.com.

Posted 08-01-2010 at 08:27 PM by SilversleevesX
Updated 08-01-2010 at 08:30 PM by SilversleevesX
http://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...e-problem.html
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Don't ask -- it's here

Posted 07-25-2010 at 10:16 AM by SilversleevesX
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