Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 11/11/10 17:54, Paul Eggert wrote:
...
>> It's
>> not a big deal, but I still mildly prefer the * notation.
Same here.
However, here's an argument for using a different method, perhaps
with a hard-coded mapping from common FS types to known precision:
Running these two commands with different ordering prints
different results. When the file with NS%10 == 0 comes first,
stat suppresses the trailing 0(s):
$ stat -c '%4n %.*Z' 3 9
3 1289555520.29981438
9 1289555520.300814502
After the first non-multiple-of-10 nanoseconds value,
stat prints all trailing 0's:
$ stat -c '%4n %.*Z' 9 3
9 1289555520.300814502
3 1289555520.299814380
It's easy to create files like that via e.g.,
seq 10000|xargs touch -d '1970-01-01 18:43:33.5000000000'
