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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Access time of a file Post 302232453 by MartyIX on Thursday 4th of September 2008 12:57:26 PM
Old 09-04-2008
I made a simple script and copied the output:

Code:
file=example_1.sh;stat $file; cat $file >/dev/null; stat $file

Code:
  File: `example_1.sh'
  Size: 918             Blocks: 2          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fh/15d  Inode: 2099578354  Links: 1
Access: (0744/-rwxr--r--)  Uid: (13654/vsetm7am)   Gid: (  200/ nofiles)
Access: 2008-09-02 21:47:11.000000000 +0200
Modify: 2008-09-02 21:47:11.000000000 +0200
Change: 2008-09-02 21:47:11.000000000 +0200
  File: `example_1.sh'
  Size: 918             Blocks: 2          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fh/15d  Inode: 2099578354  Links: 1
Access: (0744/-rwxr--r--)  Uid: (13654/vsetm7am)   Gid: (  200/ nofiles)
Access: 2008-09-02 21:47:11.000000000 +0200
Modify: 2008-09-02 21:47:11.000000000 +0200
Change: 2008-09-02 21:47:11.000000000 +0200

How come that access time didn't change when data was accessed?
 

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gnomevfs-info(1)						   User Commands						  gnomevfs-info(1)

NAME
gnomevfs-info - display a list of file information SYNOPSIS
gnomevfs-info URI DESCRIPTION
gnomevfs-info displays the following information about a file: o Name: filename o Type: [Regular|Directory] o MIME type: mime-type o Size: file-size o Blocks: #blocks o I/O block size: block-size o Local: [YES|NO] o SUID: [YES|NO] o SGID: [YES|NO] o Sticky: [YES|NO] o Permissions: octal permissions o Link count: #links o UID: owner-uid o GID: owner-gid o Access time: date-and-time o Modification time: date-and-time o Change time: date-and-time o Device #: device# o Inode #: inode# o Readable: [YES|NO] o Writable: [YES|NO] o Executable: [YES|NO] OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: URI Specifies the file or directory location in standard URI format. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Getting File Information for a Local File example% gnomevfs-info file:///etc/nsswitch.conf ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnomevfs-info Executable to display a list of file information ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-vfs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gnomevfs-cat(1), gnomevfs-copy(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1) NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004. SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2004 gnomevfs-info(1)
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