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Joel bookmarked on 2007-04-18 file linux ls time
  • ^ You can't find creation time for a file. It isn't stored anywhere. Files have a last-modified time (shown by "ls -l"), a last-accessed time (shown by "ls -lu") and an inode change time (shown by "ls -lc"). The latter is often referred to as the "creation time" - even in some man pages -but that's wrong; it's also set by such operations as mv, ln, chmod, chown and chgrp.

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  • 18 Apr 07
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    Joel Liu

    file linux ls time

    • ^ You can't find creation time for a file. It isn't stored anywhere. Files have a last-modified time (shown by "ls -l"), a last-accessed time (shown by "ls -lu") and an inode change time (shown by "ls -lc"). The latter is often referred to as the "creation time" - even in some man pages -but that's wrong; it's also set by such operations as mv, ln, chmod, chown and chgrp.

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