that sounds like you need atime, access time.

Just a note: Updating atime may be "expensive" in some ways (e.g. the computer may need to spin up a laptop's harddisk just to update the atime of a file that is already in the buffer cache), so there are mount options to delay or completely prevent updating the atime. For linux, search for "noatime", "strictatime", "relatime" in the mount manpage for details.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^4: Analyzing Files Within a Directory by afoken
in thread Analyzing Files Within a Directory by xc63

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