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

You can use:

ls -lrt filename |awk '{print "%02d",$7}'

This will display the date in 2 digits.

If between 1 to 9 it adds "0" prefix to it and converts to 01 - 09.

Hope this meets the expectation.