Print a file's last modified date in Bash

Question

I can\'t seem to find how to print out the date of a file. I\'m so far able to print out all the files in a directory, but I need to print out the dates with it.

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Answer 1

Isn't the 'date' command much simpler? No need for awk, stat, etc.

date -r 

Also, consider looking at the man page for date formatting; for example with common date and time format:

date -r  "+%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S"