Re: last modified file time

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 06/22/05

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    On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:19:22 GMT, Jacco
      <jacco425@hotmail.com> wrote:
    > How do I find out the time/date a file was last modified (ls -al does not
    > seem to show it - it appears to show creation time)
    >
    You're mistaken, Unix filesystems don't even store a creation time. Each
    file has three timestamps called mtime, ctime and atime. See "man ls",
    "man touch" or "man find". "ls -l" shows the mtime. You can see ctime
    with "ls -lc" or atime with "ls -lu". Mtime is updated when you change
    a file's contents, ctime when you change its name or permissions. Atime
    is when a file was last accessed. 

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