Using find to print the timestamp

sunny8107 · 05-27-2010, 10:06 AM

All,
I am looking for a way to print the timestamp of a directory using find command. I can do that for a file, but for a directory, it is printing the contents of the directory as well.

Lets say there is a directory called doc, and there are more than one occurrences of that directory.

find . -name "doc" -type d -exec ls -l {} \;

This is printing the contents of all the files under doc directory as well. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

rayfordj · 05-27-2010, 10:16 AM

Code:

find . -name "doc" -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;

sunny8107 · 05-27-2010, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rayfordj

Code:

find . -name "doc" -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;

Nice, that did it! Thanks

colucix · 05-27-2010, 10:49 AM

Another option is the -printf expression, e.g something like

Code:

find . -name "doc" -type d -printf "%Tc %p\n"

Using modifiers to the %T format you can customize the appearance of the timestamp.