> On Aug 19, 2004, at 1:58 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> > The founding fathers of Unix deliberately left out "creation time"
> > because the concept is ambiguous at best. There's some discussion on
> > it in the classic materials about the early years of Unix.
> >
> > And I agree with the lo
On Aug 19, 2004, at 1:58 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
The founding fathers of Unix deliberately left out "creation time"
because the concept is ambiguous at best. There's some discussion on
it in the classic materials about the early years of Unix.
And I agree with the logic, and the conclusion.
> "Bill" == Bill Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> I'm sure there is some valid reason for not tracking file creation
Bill> dates but I fail to figure it out on my own.
The founding fathers of Unix deliberately left out "creation time"
because the concept is ambiguous at best. The
Ahhh I've always used a Mac and it apparently does, but this will
be a problem since I'm porting to a virtual server (unix based). I
don't know if server tracks file creation dates. I suspect not because
I could not find anything in my perl or unix books that reference it.
I'm sure there is
Bill Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Does anyone have example code that loops through a
: directory of files and prints a list of those created
: within a user selected date range.
:
: Here's what I've got so far, but it doesn't get the
: date the file was created and I can't seem to fin
