[KLUG Members] url encode in a bash script

[Bruce Smith]

> Maybe I'm making things too complicated.  I simply want to get the date 
> of a local file from within a bash script.  I was thinking of capturing 
> the output of stat and sending it off to parse elsewhere.  The output of 
> stat has spaces, etc., so it needs to be urlencoded before sending.  If 
> I could get just the date, which is already in the format of YYYY-MM-DD, 
> I could send that off as-is.

stat my.file | grep '^Modify:' | cut -d' ' -f2

(assuming you want the modify date)

 - BS