"Andrew" == Andrew Vardy
<avardy(_at_)morgan(_dot_)ucs(_dot_)mun(_dot_)ca> writes:
Andrew> I wonder about the Unix method of date stamping.
Andrew> It gives a date of last access when you do ls -al
Andrew> But, I wonder if UNIX keeps a creation date stamp. Date
Andrew> and time stamp of file's creation. Thought it might be
Andrew> helpful if it did.
Well, you can try 'stat' if you have it:
(michael) [/home/michael]
11 --> stat backnum.py
File: "backnum.py"
Size: 428 Filetype: Regular File
Mode: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 500/ michael) Gid: ( 500/
michael)
Device: 3,67 Inode: 73360 Links: 1
Access: Fri Apr 24 23:28:02 1998(00000.15:10:53)
Modify: Thu Apr 16 20:32:38 1998(00008.18:06:17)
Change: Thu Apr 16 20:32:38 1998(00008.18:06:17)
mp
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