[LUGSB] finding the 'file creation date'

[Erhan H Senlik]

How do I find file creation date, even after the modification or changes.?

I know that ls -l shows the last modified time, ls -lu shows the
last accessed time, and ls -lc shows the last status change time.

Is there a way to get it? Maybe FSL ppl can help me out here :)

Thanks.


-Erhan
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Subject: Re: [LUGSB] finding the 'file creation date'
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Nope. Theres no way to get the file creation time. Its not stored
anywhere. stat used with ctime gives the creation time of the file. This
is true if the file system supports it. I dont think Unix fs supports
it.

Devaki


On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:07, Erhan H Senlik wrote:
> 
> How do I find file creation date, even after the modification or changes.?
> 
> I know that ls -l shows the last modified time, ls -lu shows the
> last accessed time, and ls -lc shows the last status change time.
> 
> Is there a way to get it? Maybe FSL ppl can help me out here :)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -Erhan
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