Job Start Date from Unix

[ssh023]

Is there any way I could get the last ran date for a particular job from the command line? I know DSJobStartDate gives the date, I dont have a clear idea about using it from the comman line. Can you guys please help me with the syntax??

[ArndW]

the command "dsjob -jobinfo {project} {job}" will give several lines of output, grep for "Job Start Time"

[ray.wurlod]

... which you can isolate using grep or some similar utility.

[ssh023]

Thanks Arnrd and Ray for the replies, I used the mentioned command and I am getting the Last Run Time in the below format if I do a Grep on the output for the Job Start Date

'Last Run Time: Month Day Year hh:mm:ss' (eg Jan 8 2008 00:00:00)

I want JobstartDate in the 'YYYYMMDDhhmmss' format. Is there a way I can achieve this? Please help!!!

[ray.wurlod]

You can't extract it in that format. But your script can re-arrange the components of what you can extract. All the bits you need are there.

If you need to learn/hire some scripting skills, then so be it.

[chulett]

You can use 'cut' to get the pieces and then put them together any way you want. Best to ask a colleague for scripting help, quicker that way.