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Cool atime, ctime, mtime somewhere along csize..

i have used all forms of the unix find command.. and right now this is the only command i can think of that might have this option..:
if i use mtime i am looking at a time interval.. but if i wanted to find out intervals of access, change and modification according to when a file changed size "and what that size was!" how would i go about doing this.. i can only think this is so obvious and i have missed the point completely or that there is really no such thing..:
ex,. find -type f etc printf "%...%...%\n"
5065 Feb 2 00:59:59 file[abc]..
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but this read out should give the size of the file before the last modification (or access etc)...
if there is any such thing please clue me in..
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No history is maintained like that. There is no way to find out what the size was before the last write. Besides, suppose you did:
cat littlefile >> bigfile
The kernel might do 1 write to bigfile. Or it might do 100 writes to bigfile. So the size before the last write would not be useful anyway.
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thats what I was afraid of.. can you suggest a command or a find invocation that would give a double precision form of stating files.. I have tried them all stat, find, du, etc.. what I need is something that will give me precision and quantative data.. on a file. does this command exist? forinstance what is quota?
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Like you said, you tried them all. That's all there is.
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thanks for the reply,
i guess I will just have to make do with the commands I tried..
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