Retrieving file size, or its modification time
 

Hi all,

I am beginner in bash programming and I am trying to write a script thet retrieves and stores inside some of
its local variables a modification time ( or a size ) of a given file. Are there any syscalls, or other methods to achieve above written ?

Thank you.

"stat -c "%s %Y" /some/file" will give you the size in bytes and mtime in epoch.

try

byTime=`ls -l [files] | awk '{ print $6:$7 }'
bySize=`ls -l [files] | awk '{ print $5:$7 }'

thanks
 

Thanks for help !