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03-17-2011

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For example:

Code:

root@gupta:/home/gupta/Desktop/my_stuff/test# ls -lu xls.php 
-rw-r--r-- 1 gupta gupta 3947 2011-03-01 10:46 xls.php

root@gupta:/home/gupta/Desktop/my_stuff/test# cat xls.php

--- contents of the file ---

root@gupta:/home/gupta/Desktop/my_stuff/test# ls -lu xls.php 
-rw-r--r-- 1 gupta gupta 3947 2011-03-17 08:53 xls.php

so in the above example, the access time changes when we cat the file.

Now look at the following example -

Code:

root@gupta:/home/gupta/Desktop/my_stuff/tmp# ls -lu idxx.txt 
-rw-r--r-- 1 gupta gupta 1189 2011-03-16 14:35 idxx.txt

root@gupta:/home/gupta/Desktop/my_stuff/tmp# cat idxx.txt

--- contents of the file ----

root@gupta:/home/gupta/Desktop/my_stuff/tmp# ls -lu idxx.txt 
-rw-r--r-- 1 gupta gupta 1189 2011-03-16 14:35 idxx.txt

In this example, the access time does not change.

Thanks for any input.
V.

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