Hello

I'm in need of a shell script that would extract a date of a file preferrably in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Wouldn't want to use ls, as it returns rather not shell friendly format.

Perl would be ok, but really would love it done in plain shell. Anybody with anything already completed?

Thanks in advance.

Couldnt you use the --timestyle flag for ls? I.e.

ls -l --time-style="+%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S"

HTH
/Lennart

Thanks for help, but that doesn't work.

It's a HP-UX 11i and ls doesn't support that option
And I can't install other ls version

Still need help...