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Creation date of a directory

what's the command to find the creation date of a certain dirctory?

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UNIX doesn't support creation date, windows does. There are a few oddball filesystems that support creation date, however it requires changes to a number of system calls to make it work.

Code:

ls -ldc dirname

gives you the last time the inode data was changed, which is as close as you can get.

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