The question was: Creation date and time, not last accessed date and
time.
I've not heard of such a thing. It might take the creation of a routine
which checks the monitored directory for the creation of new files, then
catalogs and indexes its findings to a file which could be used as a
lookup table when that information is needed...
Karl
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 18:56, Ian McGowan wrote:
> If your system doesn't have the stat or fstat command, this small program
> may do:
>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> 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
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 4:13 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [U2] [Unix] creation date/time
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> > 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? Thanks, Scott
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