displaying file access times in console

k4zau · 10-23-2003, 11:56 PM

ls -l only displays the modification time for files, right? i want to be able to see the time a file was last accessed without using one of KDE's tools. is there a command that shows all the known information for an individual file?

slakmagik · 10-24-2003, 12:24 AM

ls -lu shows access time. I don't think there's any single option that shows *everything* at once - that'd be a lot of stuff.

k4zau · 10-24-2003, 11:36 AM

thanks, that gave me the info i needed. ls -lu works fine for that purpose.
i'm going to write a shell script to make it quicker to do.

i looked in O'Reilly's "Linux in a Nutshell" and apparently there is a command called 'stat' that displays all the inode information for a given file, including modification and access times. although it doesn't seem to be on my system.

slakmagik · 10-24-2003, 07:28 PM

Sure is. Thanks in return.

In Slack it's part of coreutils-5.0 and is in /usr/bin. One day I'll actually know what every file on the system does. Heh.

Output looks like so

Code:

  File: `statfile'
  Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
Device: 344h/836d       Inode: 4135        Links: 1    
Access: (0600/-rw-------)  Uid: ( 1000/       user)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Access: 2003-10-24 20:26:27.000000000 -0400
Modify: 2003-10-24 20:26:27.000000000 -0400
Change: 2003-10-24 20:26:27.000000000 -0400

k4zau · 10-26-2003, 10:48 PM

glad to know that it actually exists. it seems to me that redhat doesn't include all the little console apps that any decent Unix system would. i have an old 486 box at home running Slack 8.1 and i remember using a lot of utilities on it that are nowhere to be found on my redhat machine. thanks for the tip.