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

If file name has no spaces:

ls -l  | awk '{print $6, " ", $7, " ", $8, " ", $9 }'

This prints as the following format:

 Dec   21   20:03   a1.out
 Dec   21   20:04   a.cpp

If file names have space (you can use the following command for file names with no spaces too, just it looks complicated/ugly than the former):

 ls -l  | awk '{printf ("%s %s %s ",  $6,  $7, $8); for (i=9;   i<=NF; i++){ printf ("%s ", $i)}; printf ("\n")}'