How to get modification time for a file (in UNIX TIME!) on AIX

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$ istat TESTFILE.txt
Inode 2317 on device 12/7       File
Protection: rw-------   
Owner: 4847(testuser)           Group: 346(testuser)
Link count:   1         Length 1480 bytes

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istat doesn't know any format for UNIX TIME on AIX?

My question: How can I display the modification time for a file in UNIX TIME format on AIX?

Best Answer

You can use perl:

$ perl -le 'print((stat shift)[9])' test.txt
1402577190

Or GNU date:

$ date -r test.txt +%s

You can install GNU date on AIX refer to this link.

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If you were on Linux, you could simply use:

date -d @1381260225

Or you could use gawk:

echo "1381260225" | gawk '{print strftime("%c",$1)}'

Or Python:

python -c "import datetime; print  datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1381865497)"

Or Perl:

perl -e 'print(scalar(localtime(1381865497)), "\n";'

However none of these solutions are available on a stock AIX installation. All of these tools (GNU coreutils, GNU awk, Perl, Python) are available as separate packages as part of the AIX toolbox for Linux applications.

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ps -fp <pid> would normally give you that information

# ps -fp 6357210 
     UID      PID     PPID   C    STIME    TTY  TIME CMD
    root  6357210        1  35 15:25:31      -  3:03 nfsd

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