In node-red as watch node will be triggered for modification I'm trying to get the last file modified time, but is there any node to get the file last modified time.

I used shell scripting in node-red for getting last modified date and time. script: date -r <filename>

If you are using a watch node then the last modified time is now.

No to solve watch node problem only i'm using file last modified time. Is there any node or how to get that.

If you can't find one serching the flows library why not write one?

Yeah i can write in function but I am using node-red snap. So, for using any module I have to edit settings.js to add that library, But in node-red snap I didnt found settings.js.

for reading I wrote the below function but it is giving following exception fs.stat("/dir/file.txt", function(err, stats){ var mtime = new Date(util.inspect(stats.mtime)); console.log(mtime); }); ReferenceError: fs is not defined (line 1, col 13)

[image] VIKRAMAS: but I am using node-red snap What platform and OS are you running on? Why not follow the directions here Getting Started : Node-RED ? I've never seen SNAP till you mentioned it, but settings.js should be in the .node-red folder (ina normal install)

[image] VIKRAMAS: No to solve watch node problem What watch node problem? If you mean the fact that you only want one message as in the other thread then you can do that much easier than looking at the last modified time by using a Trigger node as I suggested. It is trivially easy.

But watch node will trigger if content is not saved(i mean even if you try to modify it'll trigger), but I want trigger only when the content is changed(i mean saved).

[image] VIKRAMAS: watch node will trigger if content is not saved(i mean even if you try to modify it'll trigger) In what way do you mean 'try to modify' that does not actually modify it?

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