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# 1  
Old 09-17-2010
Command for checking modification history on file
What is the command for checking modification history on file?

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Let me rephrase this. On a regular Unix file can I at least check to see the time and date history modification of the file?
# 2  
Old 09-17-2010
Unix files keep three times:

last time the file was accessed, modified, or metadata changed (eg chmod)

Code:
$ ls -ce passwd
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         894 Sep 16 14:18:29 2010 passwd
$ ls -ue passwd
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         894 Sep 17 12:45:00 2010 passwd
$ ls -le passwd
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         894 Sep 16 14:18:29 2010 passwd

The -e modifier makes the time display in seconds -l is mtime, -c ctime, -u atime.
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# 3  
Old 09-20-2010
You can also use stat command to see all :

Code:
$ stat /etc/passwd
  File: "/etc/passwd"
  Size: 2528            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   Regular File
Device: 301h/769d       Inode: 212442      Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: Tue Jun  1 13:23:28 2010
Modify: Tue Jun  1 13:23:28 2010
Change: Sun Sep 19 00:15:53 2010

# 4  
Old 09-20-2010
stat is not a command shipped with Solaris. It is part of sunfreeware's coreutils package, for example.
# 5  
Old 09-20-2010
You might want to use ls extended attributes display option to get these times.
Code:
$ ls -l -% all bootenv.rc 
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        1317 Mar  9  2010 bootenv.rc
         timestamp: atime         Sep 20 09:19:21 2010 
         timestamp: ctime         Mar  9 03:45:24 2010 
         timestamp: mtime         Mar  9 03:45:23 2010 
         timestamp: crtime        Mar  9 03:24:28 2010

Note also that you'll get the file creation time when running on ZFS.
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# 6  
Old 09-21-2010
This is what I got when I tried jilliagre's suggestion:

Code:
$ ls -l -% all authorized_keys
ls: illegal option -- %
usage: ls -1RaAdCxmnlhogrtuvVcpFbqisfHLeE@ [files]

# 7  
Old 09-21-2010
The syntax I suggested works only with SunOS 5.11 based distributions. Sorry for not mentioning that.
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