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Possible Duplicate: How do I do a ls and then sort the results by date created? Is there a command in Linux which displays when the file was created ? I see that ls -l gives the last modified time,...
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In the man of find the -ctime is said to be : -ctime n File status was last changed n*24 hours ago. See the comments for -atime to understand how rounding affects the ...
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I want to find out the creation date of a particular file on a Linux system. Not the modification date or access date, the creation date. I have tried with ls -ltrh and stat filename but neither gives ...
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I was just reading up on the Birth section of stat and it appears ext4 should support it, but even a file I just created leaves it empty. ~ % touch test ...
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How can I get the age of a given file in, at least, days? I'm well aware of ls -lh and similar commands. I want something that will work sort of like this: getfage <FILE> # prints out '12d' (...
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Are there any (good known, reliable) file systems on Linux that store the creation time of files and directories in the i-node table? If there are, is the "changed" time replaced by the creation ...
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What is the difference between -c and -t options for the ls Unix command? And how can I sort by date of creation with the ls command?
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When I run this command from php sudo -u db2inst1 ls -t /var/lib/edumate/bdrs/*/*/daily/*NODE* | sort -r I receive sudo: unable to execute /bin/ls: Argument list too long ls lists all daily backup ...
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How to list out all files created between from 'x' to 'y' time? I want to list out files created between "29-dec-2014 18:00" to "30-dec-2014 18:00". Using ls or stat?
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OS X keeps the date and time a file was added to the folder it's currently in, which is useful for sorting. Does any Unix/Linux filesystem or program offer similar functionality? This is not a ...
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How can i see when a file was created. I have looked at man page ls -lc is for last modification of file status ls -lu for access time ls -l not exactly indicated which time, last changed? I ...
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Does anyone know when Unix supports birth/creation time stamps for files and directories? If possible also when first file manager (GUI) displays it by default for users. For comparison with Windows, ...
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Two different xfs filesystems on two different Fedora. Why one of them records Birth(crtime) in the inode and why the other one doesn't? How to find the configuration/attribute differences between ...
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I have a script that deletes files older than N minutes. The script basically runs: find /some-folder/* -mmin +59 | xargs rm -rf But for some reason it prints tons of: No such file or directory but ...
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The question As of today, Unix standards don't support a file "creation time" attribute. However, many filesystems, like ext4, exFAT and NTFS, internally do save a creation time for their ...
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