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How to display modified date time with ‘find’ command?

With a find command, I can display directories names with multiple levels. The following command display all directories under /var path with a depth of 2:

find /var -maxdepth 2 -type d;

The result shows:

/var
/var/log
/var/log/sssd
/var/log/samba
/var/log/audit
/var/log/ConsoleKit
/var/log/gdm
/var/log/sa

With a stat command, I can find the modified date time:

stat /var/log/samba | grep 'Modify:'

The result is:

Modify: 2014-01-02 11:21:27.762346214 -0800 

Is there a way to combine the two commands so that directories will be listed with modified date time?

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Answer

You could use the -exec switch for find and define the output format of stat using the -c switch as follows:

find /var -maxdepth 2 -type d -exec stat -c "%n %y" {} ;

This should give the filename followed by its modification time on the same line of the output.

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