[RFE] show mtime of each included file about supportutils HOT 3 CLOSED

By default ls -l does show the modification time stamp. We could use -c or -u, but is that what you are really looking for? For example:

sles15sp3:~ # ls -l --time-style=long-iso /sbin/vgs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2021-06-09 08:45 /sbin/vgs -> /usr/sbin/vgs
sles15sp3:~ # ls -lu --time-style=long-iso /sbin/vgs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2021-07-28 07:23 /sbin/vgs -> /usr/sbin/vgs
sles15sp3:~ # ls -lc --time-style=long-iso /sbin/vgs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2021-07-22 12:12 /sbin/vgs -> /usr/sbin/vgs
sles15sp3:~ # stat /sbin/vgs
File: /sbin/vgs -> /usr/sbin/vgs
Size: 13 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 symbolic link
Device: 2fh/47d Inode: 89564 Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2021-07-28 07:23:47.274770895 -0600
Modify: 2021-06-09 08:45:31.000000000 -0600
Change: 2021-07-22 12:12:18.242853563 -0600
Birth: 2021-07-22 12:12:18.242853563 -0600

ls -l correctly shows /sbin/vgs has not been modified since 6/9/21.

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My use case was to see when customer did a change in a config file. An example:

grep '/etc/lvm/lvm.conf$' lvm.txt 
S.5....T.  c /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
# /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

I can see only it was modified but can I know when?

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The existing supportconfig ls commands show the modification time by default. So running ls -l /etc/lvm/ will show the modification time.
sles15sp3:/var/log/samba # ls -l /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98247 Aug 4 13:32 /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

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