file creation date

Michael Griffin mkgriffin at adelphia.net
Tue Sep 14 15:39:45 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 11:34, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> 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
> 
Then does the test command with nt only test against a-c-m?

michael 





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