On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:16:47 +0100 Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:20:10AM +0000, gritzmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > How do I change the birth time of a file? `touch -acm -d "1980-01-01 > > 00:00:00" myfile` changes only the access, modify and change times. > > > > `stat myfile` returns `10 215746 -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 0 0 "Jan 1 00:00:00 > > 1980" "Jan 1 00:00:00 1980" "Jan 16 13:00:33 2020" 16384 0 0 myfile` > > > > Thanks! > > > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > > Change time != creation time. There is no such thing as creation time > in unix. > > The change time (c_time in struct stat) cannot be explicitly set by > any API and is maintained by the kernel. > > -Otto > > man touch ? Dhu -- Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglaise. C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)
