Unix commands to get last modified date and size of file/folder (NOT LS)
The most common command for this is stat(1). Some variants, notably GNU stat, allow specification of the output format, which simplifies parsing.
$ stat t.txt
File: ‘t.txt’
Size: 48 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 7078223 Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 500/ ignacio) Gid: ( 500/ ignacio)
Context: unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
Access: 2013-06-25 09:04:32.600422989 -0400
Modify: 2013-06-24 00:10:57.925679368 -0400
Change: 2013-06-24 00:10:57.970679307 -0400
Birth: -