Re: Question about

Since Unix doesn't keep track of file creation dates, ...

Unix regards ctime in terms of the last inode modification. That may not be what you want. There are -M, -A, and -C relating to file dates. -A is not too touchable, but the other two are pretty flexible.

See p. 100 of Camel3.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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•Re: Re: Question about - M by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 30, 2002 at 16:33 UTC
-A is not too touchable, but the other two are pretty flexible. I'm not sure if you mean which two of the three are arbitrarily settable, but if you do, you're wrong. It's `-C` that is always set to "now" whenever you do anything interesting to the file, but `-A` and `-M` can be set to arbitrary values using utime. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]