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I need a command that retrieves the last modified date and another that gives the size of a file.

I've looked everywhere, and I cannot find commands like this.

LS will not work.

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    Can you explain why you cannot use ls? The underlying reason could prevent other similar commands working as well.
    – Paul
    Jun 26, 2013 at 1:51
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    Because I'm parsing the command output. LS would give the right information, but the output would be ridiculous to parse.
    – Glimpse
    Jun 26, 2013 at 1:59

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The most common command for this is stat(1). Some variants, notably GNU stat, allow specification of the output format, which simplifies parsing.

$ stat t.txt
  File: ‘t.txt’
  Size: 48          Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 7078223     Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: (  500/ ignacio)   Gid: (  500/ ignacio)
Context: unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
Access: 2013-06-25 09:04:32.600422989 -0400
Modify: 2013-06-24 00:10:57.925679368 -0400
Change: 2013-06-24 00:10:57.970679307 -0400
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