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Mick
Asked: 2019-10-18 01:27:03 +0800 CST

stat command format to append '/' to file name if directory, and remove "./" from front

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With the following command I have been able to list all the directories relative to the current directory along with the epoch time last modified:

find . -exec stat -c '%n: %Y' {} \;

the output looks something like this:

.: 1569247414
./a_file.txt: 1561624333
./some_folder: 1561624645
./some_folder/some_file.txt: 1561624645
./some_folder/another_file.txt: 1536557809

How would I go about getting rid of the "./" appearing at the beginning of every entry, and add a '/' if it is a directory?

As a bonus, getting rid of the first entry '.' which is just the current folder would be nice.

Cheers

bash find stat

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    • Add -mindepth 1 to get rid of . which is depth==0
    • Alternative: use find * instead of find .
    • Separate files from folders with -type d ... -or -type f ...
    • Use + instead of \; to send multiple files to stat; it can handle it and will be much faster !
    find * \
-type d -exec stat -c '%n/: %Y' {} + \
-or -type f -exec stat -c '%n: %Y' {} +

    BUT...

    You don't need -exec stat at all !

    • Use finds bultin -printf to print the last modification date (%Cs would be the equivalent to stat's %Y).
    • -printf '%P' instead of %p will also let you get rid of ./ at the beginning of each file name.
    find . -mindepth 1 \
-type d -printf '%P/: %Cs\n' \
-or -type f -printf '%P: %Cs\n'

    Output:

    a_file.txt: 1561624333
some_folder/: 1561624645
some_folder/some_file.txt: 1561624645
some_folder/another_file.txt: 1536557809
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