text_combined: brian foster blfutvinternetie date thu 1 aug 2002 173551 0100 lars hecking quickie shell scripters find time file created canonical test information necessarily available information also shown ls lc parsing ls output requires bit effort id rather recommend writing short c program access file status directly output ctime directly seconds since epoch ie perfect numerical comparison systems stat1 tool dont think gnu given option exactly lars suggesting stat etcmotd etcmotd 21 8 81a4 0 0 303 79 1 0 0 1028070983 830730492 1013296719 minor problem format actually explained man page fairly easy work look source also since filename printed first field bizarre filenames eg ones contain spaces newlines confuse simple script cheers blf another way use gnu find printf custom format innovative experienced unix brian foster dublin ireland chorus embedded rtos kernel internals email blfutvinternetie expert looking new position mobile 353 086 854 9268 résumé contact see website httpwwwblfutvinternetie stop eo exxonmobile whatever dont buy esso dont give damn global warming httpwwwstopessocom supported greenpeace friends earth numerous others irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie sat 03 aug 2002 151003 0100 ilug csh shell scripts