On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 6:49 PM, Jorge Fabregas wrote: >On Friday 19 January 2007 7:54 pm, Greg Wallace wrote: >> Could someone tell me what the date that comes out of this command is? In >> looking at the man pages, it goes to a lot of trouble explaining all of the >> different options you can specify but nowhere does it simply say "With no >> options, shows the following ...". I also tried info. My guess would be >> that it is the last time the file was modified, but I want to be sure.
>Well, dir isn't a command at all. It's technically an alias. Do this: >alias | grep dir >you'll see that it's an alias for "ls -l". The time you'll see there is the >"modification time". It's the same when you do: >ls -l myFile.txt >If you don't specify any other argument it will show the last MODIFICATION >time (when contents of file changed). >If you do this: >ls -lc myFile.txt >it ill show the last "CHANGE" time. (this time is updated whenever the >metadata of a file is changed...like ownership, permissions etc) >And finally: >ls -lu myFile.txt >It show the last time the file was ACCESED. >HTH, >Jorge Thanks. There was a discussion about the different times that were stored for a file some while back (and about how original creation date is not stored) but I couldn't find my notes and I don't recall the discussion being tied directly to the various ls options. Good information. Thanks, Greg W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
