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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting change the time stamp of file Post 302210512 by anish19 on Tuesday 1st of July 2008 06:39:11 AM
Old 07-01-2008
change the time stamp of file

can we change the timestamp of a file to old date.

Code:
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     other        330 Jul  1 16:03     abc.txt

it shows creation time is 16.03 can i change it to previous time

Smilie

Last edited by rbatte1; 08-09-2016 at 05:10 AM.. Reason: Added CODE tags
 

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FILECTIME(3)								 1							      FILECTIME(3)

filectime - Gets inode change time of file

SYNOPSIS
int filectime (string $filename) DESCRIPTION
Gets the inode change time of a file. PARAMETERS
o $filename - Path to the file. RETURN VALUES
Returns the time the file was last changed, or FALSE on failure. The time is returned as a Unix timestamp. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A filectime(3) example <?php // outputs e.g. somefile.txt was last changed: December 29 2002 22:16:23. $filename = 'somefile.txt'; if (file_exists($filename)) { echo "$filename was last changed: " . date("F d Y H:i:s.", filectime($filename)); } ?> ERRORS
/EXCEPTIONS Upon failure, an E_WARNING is emitted. NOTES
Note Note: In most Unix filesystems, a file is considered changed when its inode data is changed; that is, when the permissions, owner, group, or other metadata from the inode is updated. See also filemtime(3) (which is what you want to use when you want to create "Last Modified" footers on web pages) and fileatime(3). Note Note also that in some Unix texts the ctime of a file is referred to as being the creation time of the file. This is wrong. There is no creation time for Unix files in most Unix filesystems. Note Note that time resolution may differ from one file system to another. Note The results of this function are cached. See clearstatcache(3) for more details. Tip As of PHP 5.0.0, this function can also be used with some URL wrappers. Refer to "Supported Protocols and Wrappers" to determine which wrappers support stat(3) family of functionality. SEE ALSO
filemtime(3). PHP Documentation Group FILECTIME(3)
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