GNU bug report logs - #7365
stat bug: %Z appends .000000000

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: IgnorantGuru <ignorantguru <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: IgnorantGuru <ignorantguru <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Cc: IgnorantGuru <ignorantguru <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: stat bug: %Z appends .000000000
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:59:13 -0700

$ stat -c %Z examplefile 
1289397609.000000000

stat (GNU coreutils) 8.6 installed from Arch Linux repos, executing in a bash shell.

This behavior changed recently - didn't used to have the .000000000 which breaks scripts that use stat.  eg
line 297: ((: 1289301692.000000000: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".000000000")
This bug report was last modified 14 years and 278 days ago.

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