In message <200112280452.fBS4qIP12836@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writes
:
>In message <20011228002343.0C50DB5@proven.weird.com>, Greg A. Woods writes:
>>Among many I've seen there's this one, the eighth link on Google today:
>
>I have one of these.  Mine does output like:
>
>File:   <stdin>+
>Major:  5                          Minor:   0       
>Owner:  100   (seebs)              Group:   4     (tty)
>Mode:   0620  (crw--w----)         Type:    character special
>Inode:  10644                      Device:  18874368
>Links:  1
>Last access: Thu Dec 27 22:51:48 2001
>Last modify: Thu Dec 27 22:51:48 2001
>Last change: Thu Dec 27 22:51:48 2001
>
>File:   /home/seebs/
>Size:   7168                       Blocks:  14      
>Owner:  100   (seebs)              Group:   100   (user)
>Mode:   0755  (drwxr-xr-x)         Type:    directory
>Inode:  1024                       Device:  18874375
>Links:  70
>Last access: Thu Dec 27 22:51:34 2001
>Last modify: Thu Dec 27 22:51:34 2001
>Last change: Thu Dec 27 22:51:34 2001
>
>I think everyone has done one.

Mine only puts out the times -- inode and size are easy enough to get 
from ls, as are owner and group.  To me, the important thing is a 
format that's easily parseable by scripts.

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