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Old 03-25-2008, 09:05 AM   #1
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Smile file creation time


i want to know the file creation time which i had done long time ago and that file is modified in some other time , so how can know the creation of time of the file .

and also i want to know the what other time i associated with file from the date of creation .
 
Old 03-25-2008, 10:41 AM   #2
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I found this using google. It might help.

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/ctime_atime_mtime.html
 
Old 03-25-2008, 12:45 PM   #3
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And, in short :}

You can't. Linux has no notion of a creation time.


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