Hi,

I want to retrieve the last modified date (with the time) of a file.Can you kindly help me out with the Unix command.

thx
Rebekah

the best thing to do is use perl's stat function

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
@file_info = stat("../../rel/path/to/file");
$time = time;
#calculate the difference in seconds
$diff_sec = ($time - $file_info[9]);

make this an executable script and it will give you the exact time difference between now and the last modified time in seconds.
you can perform basic math to get days, hours, etc.

Hope that helps.
Let me know if you need more help.

S