In the last episode (Jun 17), Bill Moran said: > Imran Imtiaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However we can find the modification date of a file but is it > > possible that we can also get creation date of the file? > > There is nothing in the filesystem that stores this info. > > However, the ctime is often used for this purpose. The ctime stores > the last time the file metadata was changed (such as permissions and > ownership). Since it's uncommon for people to change the file > metadata, the ctime can be a good indicator of when the file was > created, but it's no guarantee.
Actually, there is if you are using UFS2. The stat field is called the st_birthtime, although the code to print it via ls (with -U) was just committed recently and isn't available in 6.1. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"