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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers SImple command question Post 14932 by LivinFree on Friday 8th of February 2002 03:45:09 AM
Old 02-08-2002
I think it's just plain not stored anywhere.
I was just playing around with a tar file on a samba share at work, and it appeared to default creation time to last modified time... I was also able to set the modification time to 12/30/1969 12:00 PM, and have the modification time be the current time.

Unix does NOT store creation times, and to the best of my knowledge, tar doesn't store it internally anywhere.

Do not trust the creation times of files that are brought over to windows when originating in Unix. Windows just makes it up as it goes...
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

touch

touch(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						 touch(1B)

NAME

       touch - change file access and modification times

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/touch [-acfm] file...

DESCRIPTION

       touch sets the access and modification times of each file to the current time. file is created if it does not already exist.

OPTIONS

       -a	Change the access time of file. Do not change the modification time unless -m is also specified.

       -c	Do not create file if it does not exist.

       -f	Attempt to force the touch in spite of read and write permissions on file.

       -m	Change the modification time of file. Do not change the access time unless -a is also specified.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of touch when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	touch executed successfully and all requested changes were made.

       >0	An error occurred. touch returns the number of files for which the times could not be successfully modified.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       touch(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)

SunOS 5.10							    26 Oct 1995 							 touch(1B)
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