Solved CLI tool better than stat?

[rado84]

Is there any CLI tool that is better and can replace stat? Stat is too limited and... incompetent, for the lack of a better word. Sometimes for different reasons I need to have the OS install date which I print with

stat -c %w /

but that prints the date in the weirdest possible format which frankly I find annoying. No matter what I try, I can't make it print the date (only dd mm yyyy and nothing else - I don't need time of install or time zone) in my locale format. That makes me think stat is... well, useless. So I'm asking you: do you know of any stat-like CLI tool but which is better at formatting its own output?

 

[wizardfromoz]

@rado84 , do I take it that you have already considered and rejected

tune2fs

and

dumpe2fs

or do you have need of more functionality, and if so what?

Cheers

Wizard

 

[dos2unix]

I don't understand what you really want here? Just timestamps of file system changes?

Could you do something like...

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

 

[rado84]

or do you have need of more functionality, and if so what?

I need something to display the date / was created (meaning when the OS was installed) in this format: "DD MM YYYY" (with the intervals). What stat currently shows isn't very easy to read:
2023-07-28 01:31:27.486276000 +0300

Edit: it turns out stat alone ain't enough. I had to put it inside date for it to work the way I needed:

date -d "$( stat -c '%w' / )" +'%d %b %Y'

The operating system was installed on:
28 юли 2023

The date is displayed according to the locale language, that's why it's in Cyrillic. I guess I'll replace the month with a number.

 

[wizardfromoz]

For my preference, and might suit Members from UK, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, France and many others, I would use

date -d "$( stat -c '%w' / )" +'%d/%m/%Y'
31/12/2022

... and US Members might like

date -d "$( stat -c '%w' / )" +'%m/%d/%Y'
12/31/2022

(taken under one of my Gecko Linux)

Cheers

Wiz