You can use date -f DATEFILE or –file=DATEFILE option to format and print date information for multiple files. This is very useful when you want to print the last modified or access time of multiple files recursively.
date -f DATEFILE or –file=DATEFILE option example:
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## print last modified date of files in /etc directory sudo find /etc -type f -exec stat {} --printf="%y\n" \; | date --file=- |