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Old 05-02-2011
Showing files that were created at a certain Date
Guys i am having a bit of a trouble finding the creation date of a file. What i have to do is to redirect the output of a command (which i believed was ls -l but this command shows only the Modification time) into a file, which will contain all the files that were created on a certain date, for example last November or October. The problem is that i cant get the creation date of a file, and after searching a lot of forums i got to the conclusion that Unix does not store the Creation date. Is there something that can be done?
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Old 05-02-2011
In UNIX, it is not possible to get the actual creation date/time of a file.
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Old 05-02-2011
you can look access, change and modification times but not creation times with
Code:
stat file

maybe you can add this manually or store it in other mounts or a in a file
Code:
touch file_"`date '+%F %02k:%M:%S'`"

regards
ygemici
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