Re: date does not support pipes

[Chris Elvidge]

On 13/01/2024 04:14, Philip Rogers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> `date` seems not to support reading from stdin.
>
> So if you want the "last data modification" date of a file, in ISO8601 
> format at the seconds level, you have to:
>
> stat --format "%Y" check.txt | { read ts; date -d@"$ts"; }
>
> Instead of:
>
> stat --format "%Y" check.txt | date
>
> This is inconvenient.
>
> Would it be possible to implement reading from stdin in date?
>
> Best,
> Philip

date -r check.txt ?

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Chris Elvidge
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