stat question

[David selby]

Hello,

A while ago someone suggested using the stat command to get modification 
times for files etc, ls -al will give the info but I would have to do a 
lot of string stripping etc ...

I have looked up man "stat", confusing ... googled for it, confusing ! 
It is not a regular command, ie "stat" on the command line is a no go 
though there is a man page for it.

It appears to be a "pearl" module ?

OK simple question. In a bash script can I use stat to get modification 
times of files ?
If so what is the syntax ?

Dave

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