lts
file time data
The
lts
set of utilities print file time data to standard output
similar to
stat.
They have been broken down due to portability considerations.
Utilities
The utilities are:
lat- last access timelmt- last modification timelct- last change time
Arguments
They all accept an optional -f argument that allow setting the format
of the displayed time in
strftime
format.
Example
$ lmt README
Fri Sep 4 17:53:46 EEST 2020 README
Parsing
The default format is %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y, it can be isolated
from the filename by piping to cut -d' ' -f1-7:
$ lmt README | cut -d' ' -f1-7
Fri Sep 4 17:56:42 EEST 2020