Thanks Ken and Ian. I find that I am constantly using the ls command and then parsing
the results. Just wondered if there was a better way.
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> Ian McGowan wrote:
>
> > If your system doesn't have the stat or fstat command,
> this
> > small program may do:
> >
> > #include
> > main(int argc,char**argv) {
> > struct stat buf;
> > char d[256];
> > stat(argv[1],&buf);
> > strftime(d, sizeof(d), "%D",
> localtime(&buf.st_ctime));
> > printf("%s\n", d); }
> >
> > (error checking removed)
> >
> > Or a perl one-liner:-)
> >
> > perl -e 'print scalar localtime((stat $ARGV[0])[9]),"\n"'
> $filename
>
> Or, to get the same result, try:
>
> ls -lc $filename
>
> Sadly, this won't necessarily do what the OP wanted. The
> st_ctime element of the stat structure contains the time
> that the inode was last changed, while the st_mtime element
> contains the time the file itself was modified.
>
> The time the inode was modified *MAY* be the time when the
> file was created, but it may well not be. For example, if
> someone has chown'ed the file, or chmod'ed it, then the
> st_ctime element will reflect the time that happened, and
> the creation time will have been lost.
>
> I do not believe that there is any way to ascertain the
> creation date of a UNIX file with certainty.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ken
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >> I am looking for a unix command that could return the
> date
> >> and time that a file was created. Anybody out there now
> of such an
> >> animal?
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