st: RE: how to use timestamp of a file (that one is insheeting)

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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capture which dirlist
if _rc ssc install dirlist

clear*
set obs 10
gen myvar=_n
save myfile, replace
dirlist myfile.dta
ret li

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HTH
Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of László Sándor
Sent: Dienstag, 21. September 2010 21:24
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: how to use timestamp of a file (that one is insheeting)

Hi,

I would like to use the date and time a file was created in some
analysis. The operating system knows that time, of course. However, I
found no Stata command that would fetch that data for me, nor a way I
could use the command line to get that (though I know I can invoke
that with -shell-).

The file would be the same that an -insheet- command imports in my
code, in case this helps anything.

Thank you very much,

Laszlo



László Sándor
PhD candidate
Department of Economics
Harvard University

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