Creation time for files in Linux

[mekalai]

Hello All,

Is there a command to find the time & date of creation of a file in Linux. If i do a stat, i could get the file details. But i'm unable to get the time of creation of file.

Can someone tell me if there is a command to find the time & date of creation of a file in Linux?

Thanks!

 

[montylee]

just do a "ls -l" to view the file details like creation time, file size, permissions etc.

 

[Rhythmrocks]

Hi,,

The "ls-l" command just gives the last modified time and date of the file.

 

[montylee]

try this:

http://bloggerdigest.blogspot.com/2006/10/using-ls-command-by-examples.html

 

[Genius]

^ You can't find creation time for a file. It isn't stored anywhere. Files have a last-modified time (shown by "ls -l"), a last-accessed time (shown by "ls -lu") and an inode change time (shown by "ls -lc"). The latter is often referred to as the "creation time" - even in some man pages -but that's wrong; it's also set by such operations as mv, ln, chmod, chown and chgrp.