On Monday 23 April 2007 17:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Monday 2007-04-23 at 07:21 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > ... > > > Often I need to know when I last accessed a file. If you do, too, > > then don't use the noatime. Likewise for directories and > > nodiratime. > > I often use the modification date, sometimes the creation date, but I > have never needed to use the access time. And as for dirs, simply by > listing a dir that time is modified.
So be it. But if you need to find files knowing that you read them at a time certain (or approximate), then the Unix "access time" is what you need. > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
