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Old 02-19-2003
Timestamp of File permission change

Hi!! Experts,
Is there any way to find the timestamp when the permission of a file was modified?? I mean no change to file contents.. Just the chnage of permissions.

Smilie
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Old 02-19-2003
ls -lc
will tell you when any substantive change to the inode occurred and that does include a permission change. But it's not keyed to permissions alone.
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