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Hi,

I need to find out when a file has been created. 'ls -l' just lists the last date the file was modified. I have also noticed when viewing the attributes through NT, the last modified date is the same as the file creation date. I thought maybe this was a fault due to samba.

I guess what I really want is some way to view all the attributes for a node/file.

Thank you in advance,

Darren Palmer

Unfortunately, you cannot get the file
creation time. It is not stored anywhere.
You can get access time vs modification time
using the "stat" command.

Example:

$ stat hello.c
File: "hello.c"
Size: 77 Filetype: Regular File
Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 501/bbarrett) Gid: ( 501/bbarrett)
Device: 3,65 Inode: 800028 Links: 1
Access: Sun Sep 16 10:45:40 2001(00000.00:00:03)
Modify: Sun Sep 16 10:39:28 2001(00000.00:06:15)
Change: Sun Sep 16 10:39:28 2001(00000.00:06:15)