file creation date

Jorge Fábregas fabregasj at prtc.net
Tue Sep 14 15:34:49 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 14 September 2004 11:25 am, Michael Griffin wrote:
> How do I display/retrieve the date a file was created (using bash
> shell)?


Hi,

I don't think such metadata exist. If there is, it should be an option on the 
filesystem..but anyway, the standard ones are (ACM):

A- access time  (displayed with "ls -lu"
C- changed time (displayed with "ls -lc"
M- modification time (displayed with "ls -l"

HTH,
Jorge





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