Nick,
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:48:26 +1300, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a log file that portage would have created when it started > emergeing openoffice. How do i find out what time it created the file? > > ls -lc seems to give me the present time (the file is still being > written to) I hate to be negative, but no ;-) UNIX/Linux only keep ctime, atime and mtime. ctime is the time the file inode was last changed. atime is the time the file was last accessed. mtime is the time the contents of the file were last modified. You can see all these attributes with the stat command. -- Later David Kirk ** Beware the dreaded GMail reply-to header if replying to this message **
