Ubuntu / Solaris date command differences

xemous · 08-19-2008, 04:56 AM

I use a script to flag old files and it wont port to my my solaris machine.

In Ubuntu it was working fine,

Code:

date -r "+%s" "%filepath"

would produce the seconds from 1970 the file was last modified in.

Theres no such options on the date command in solaris, is there a separate command that does something similar?

xemous · 08-19-2008, 05:51 AM

I found the find command useful for this task that I used it in my ubuntu script also.

Mr. C. · 08-19-2008, 02:10 PM

Welcome to the world of *nix variants.

You can install the pre-built GNU tools from http://www.sunfreeware.com/, or modify your scripts to be portable using the native tools for a given *nix variant.