On 14/05/18 13:25, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher  writes:
>> On 14/05/18 08:50, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher  writes:
>>>> mtime atime and IIRC ctime
>>>>
>>>>
https://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/04/atime-ctime-mtime-in-unix-filesystems/
>>>>
>>>> last modfied, last accessed and when created.
>>>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> ctime is not creation time. Read your own link l-)
>>
>> LOL.
>>
>> Well Ive always used to to determine when a file was created as its
>> rare to change permissions and that's my excuse..
>
> That doesn’t work either...
>
>    $ rm -f a
>    $ touch a
>    $ stat -c 'mtime: %y ctime: %z' a
>    mtime: 2018-05-14 13:21:01.746205877 +0100 ctime: 2018-05-14
13:21:01.746205877 +0100
>    $ echo whatever >> a
>    $ stat -c 'mtime: %y ctime: %z' a
>    mtime: 2018-05-14 13:21:26.834237884 +0100 ctime: 2018-05-14
13:21:26.834237884 +0100
>
??? in which case its no different from mtime is it?

Something doesnt compute


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