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user3005006

Reputation: 41

Created Date of file via ftp

Good Day!

How to get created date of a file via ftp?. Im using web2py,python,ftplib and filezilla as a ftp server. I can get the modified date via f.sendcmd('MDTM '+filename).

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8401

Answers (2)

Adam111p
Adam111p

Reputation: 3727

When I want to change the file modification time, I use an FTP client on the console. Log on to a remote FTP ftp ftp.dic.com

  • cd commands go to the correct directory
  • SITE command to move the extended command mode
  • UTIME somefile.txt 20050101123000 20050101123000 20050101123000 UTC

change the access time, modification time, it's time to create a directory on 2005-01-01 12:30:00 somefile.txt

Complete example:

site UTIME somefile.txt 20150331122000 20150331122000 20150331122000 UTC

Of course you can use this command in any ftp client.

Upvotes: 0

C Fairweather
C Fairweather

Reputation: 696

You have something like the following:

connection = ftplib.FTP(**ftpCredentials)
modifiedTime = connection.sendcmd('MDTM ' + fileName)
# successful response: '213 20120222090254'

To interpret the modified time, you should do the following: 

from datetime import datetime

print datetime.strptime(modifiedTime[4:], "%Y%m%d%H%M%S").strftime("%d %B %Y %H:%M:%S")
# prints something like 01 January 1970 09:30:01

Source: this blog post @ http://alexharvey.eu/code/python/get-a-files-last-modified-datetime-using-python/

Upvotes: 8

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