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need the last access time for a .gz file

i have file named aaaa.
The file aaaa was zipped on one particular time.
Need to know the command to find out when the file "aaaa" was actually zipped.

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try:

Code:

ls -lrt | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f6-9

Code:

stat -c "%y" file

Code:

cd /pathtodirectory/
ls -l | awk '{ printf $9 "-" $6" " $7" " $8"\n" }'

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