Guys i am having a bit of a trouble finding the creation date of a file. What i have to do is to redirect the output of a command (which i believed was ls -l but this command shows only the Modification time) into a file, which will contain all the files that were created on a certain date, for example last November or October. The problem is that i cant get the creation date of a file, and after searching a lot of forums i got to the conclusion that Unix does not store the Creation date. Is there something that can be done?
In UNIX, it is not possible to get the actual creation date/time of a file.
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you can look access, change and modification times but not creation times with
stat file
maybe you can add this manually or store it in other mounts or a in a file
touch file_"`date '+%F %02k:%M:%S'`"
regards
ygemici