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SOLVED (more or less) Re: Extract CTIME in zsh 4.2.3?

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From: Timothy Luoma <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: SOLVED (more or less) Re: Extract CTIME in zsh 4.2.3?
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:44:23 -0400
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Yes, from my extensive testing of one FreeBSD system, one Linux(Gentoo) system, and one OS X system, there does not seem to be aconsistent way of getting this information.

'stat' on OS X does not seem to store the created date. That killedthe best chance for compatibility right there.


There are a couple of different ways to get it in OS X.

Tiger:
    mdls "${FILES}" | awk -F'"' '/kMDItemContentType /{print $2}'

gives me

    2005-08-20


If developer tools are installed:

/Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo "${FILES}" | awk -F' ' '/created: /{print $2}'


gives me

    08/20/2005

which isn't the format I wanted, so I'm sticking with 'mdls' for now.


Thanks to all who responded!

TjL

References:
- Extract CTIME in zsh 4.2.3?
  - From: Timothy Luoma
- Re: Extract CTIME in zsh 4.2.3?
  - From: Shawn Halpenny
- Re: Extract CTIME in zsh 4.2.3?
  - From: Timothy Luoma
- Re: Extract CTIME in zsh 4.2.3?
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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