On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> wrote:
> can we check the modification date of a single file? > > use case: mobile; get date of local file resource; ping LC server check on > mod date of the same resource, if latter is younger, then fetch it > > Sorry, can't help with mobile but for server can't you just run a shell script: ls -lT <path to file> on my machine the output looks like this - which includes the modification date: -rw-r--r--@ 1 kcl staff 8192 30 Dec 08:02:29 2014 /Users/kcl /Documents/test.txt 'ls' (ell ess) is the standard shell List command which doesn't have to be a directory but can be a single file. The options, a lower case letter ell, followed by a capital tee. There may be better options which produce a better date format that requires less parsing by LC to get something useful to work with. HTH _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
