Dear All, I have a requirement that we need to identify frequently used programs in a directory. Basically we need to identify the date of last execution of a program in unix directory. Could anyone pls let me know how to achieve this?

Unless the commands you are interested in are logging to a file, I'm not aware of any generic unix method for determining the last time a unix command executed. Some *NIX versions have their own securtity module. (Solaris has the Basic Security Module) But typically there's a lot of output to troll thru.

Hi, The issue is, we have several programs written in language called PROGRESS 4GL (we have to store these programs in .p extension) and they all stored in UNIX directory. These .p programs are accessed by ERP called MFG/PRO. Our client wants to know that frequency of the programs used (rarely used, frequently used something like that) by that ERP. Since these programs are getting executed in UNIX environment, is there any way to findout date of last execution for each .p files in UNIX box?