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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Unsure why access time on a directory change isn't changing Post 303037885 by bodisha on Thursday 15th of August 2019 04:07:25 PM
Old 08-15-2019
Unsure why access time on a directory isn't changing

Hello... And thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer me

I was trying to work out the differences between displaying modify, access, and change times with the 'ls' command. Everything seems in order when I look at files, but the access time on a directory doesn't seem to change when I expect it too.

I'm sure I must have the concept misunderstood with a directory... But when I 'cd' to a directory like 'Downloads' or do an 'ls' to view it's contents... And then look at it's last access time with 'ls -ldu' or 'stat'... It does not change

It has changed when I wasn't paying attention and has a date/time from yesterday... I just don't understand what would caused it to change

Can someone straighten me out here? THANKS!

Last edited by bodisha; 08-15-2019 at 05:52 PM..
 

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UTIME(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  UTIME(2)

NAME
utime, utimes - change access and/or modification times of an inode SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <utime.h> int utime(const char *filename, struct utimbuf *buf); #include <sys/time.h> int utimes(char *filename, struct timeval *tvp); DESCRIPTION
utime changes the access and modification times of the inode specified by filename to the actime and modtime fields of buf respectively. If buf is NULL, then the access and modification times of the file are set to the current time. The utimbuf structure is: struct utimbuf { time_t actime; /* access time */ time_t modtime; /* modification time */ }; In the Linux DLL 4.4.1 libraries, utimes is just a wrapper for utime: tvp[0].tv_sec is actime, and tvp[1].tv_sec is modtime. The timeval structure is: struct timeval { long tv_sec; /* seconds */ long tv_usec; /* microseconds */ }; RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS
Other errors may occur. EACCES Permission to write the file is denied. ENOENT filename does not exist. CONFORMING TO
utime: SVr4, SVID, POSIX. SVr4 documents additional error conditions EFAULT, EINTR, ELOOP, EMULTIHOP, ENAMETOOLONG, ENOLINK, ENOTDIR, ENO- LINK, ENOTDIR, EPERM, EROFS. utimes: BSD 4.3 SEE ALSO
stat(2) Linux 1995-06-10 UTIME(2)
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