On 13 Apr 2002 08:33:44 PDT Mike Noyes wrote:
> Anyone,
> Is there a way to get tar to return the date of the most recent file in
> a tarball?
>
> Example:
> $ tar tvzf leaf/devel/ddouthitt/packages/cal.lrp
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root 9648 2001-12-17 06:42:08 usr/bin/cal
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 32 2001-12-17 06:42:21
> var/lib/lrpkg/cal.list
>
> Desired output: 2001-12-17
If you can't get tar to tell you directly,
tar tvfz $TARBALL_FILE \
| awk '{print $4}' \
| sort -n \
| tail -n 1
might work for you.
--Brad
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