Creation date - take that with a grain of salt. A file will have the creation date (if you want to call it that) if the file has never been modified. Example, create a file with something in it. Now, leave that file alone for some time. Somebody else will do 'ls -lart' and see a date/time stamp. To that somebody else that is the modified time. You created the file and you know when, so you know that is also the create date.

Something I did notice a couple of weeks ago. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop which has a newer version of the 'stat' command. In the output of the stat command is a field called 'Birth Date:' Hmmm, could this be?

In my mind, the date/time stamp on a file is the modified time. This is the date/time stamp you will see associated with a file when you do 'ls -la'. It is this date/time stamp that is sorted when you run the 'ls -lart' command.

Here is something that may be useful with your task.

Show files which are modified after the specified file. The following find command displays all the files that are created/modified after ordinary_file.

Note the 'ls -lrt' : the files (and dirs if there are any) are being sorted by date/time, Oldest to youngest.

Code:

# find -newer ordinary_file

Looks like you're using a combination of proposed solutions. Good job!

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Creation date - take that with a grain of salt. A file will have the creation date (if you want to call it that) if the file has never been modified. Example, create a file with something in it. Now, leave that file alone for some time. Somebody else will do 'ls -lart' and see a date/time stamp. To that somebody else that is the modified time. You created the file and you know when, so you know that is also the create date.

Something I did notice a couple of weeks ago. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop which has a newer version of the 'stat' command. In the output of the stat command is a field called 'Birth Date:' Hmmm, could this be?

In my mind, the date/time stamp on a file is the modified time. This is the date/time stamp you will see associated with a file when you do 'ls -la'. It is this date/time stamp that is sorted when you run the 'ls -lart' command.

Here is something that may be useful with your task.

Show files which are modified after the specified file. The following find command displays all the files that are created/modified after ordinary_file.

Note the 'ls -lrt' : the files (and dirs if there are any) are being sorted by date/time, Oldest to youngest.

Code:

# find -newer ordinary_file

Looks like you're using a combination of proposed solutions. Good job!