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tract

Report the age of a file or directory.

Synopsis

tract [-a|-c|-m] [-q#] [-s] <file|directory>

Description

tract reports the age of a file or directory; by default it reports the time in seconds since the file or directory was last modified. In query mode it can be used to determine if a file or directory is older than a specified number of seconds.

Options

-a

Report time since last access.

-c

Report time since last status change.

-m

Report time since last modification (default).

-q#

Return a successful exit status if the file is older than the specified number of seconds. Nothing is reported on stdout.

-s

Report the time in sexagesimal (h:m:s) format (default is seconds).

Diagnostics

Status return values
-1: In query mode, the file is younger than the specified timespan.
0: Success.
1: Usage error.
2: File access error.

Examples

The following reports the elapsed time in h:m:s format since tract was installed:

   tract -s `which tract`

See also

The unix manual page for find(1).

Author

Original: 1995/02/21 by Mark Calabretta, ATNF