topic Re: ls query in Operating System - HP-UX

ls query

Steve Buchan_1 — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:10:18 GMT

Is it possible to have ls display the creation time on a file that is older than 6 months? if so, what is the switch?

hpux 11.00

Re: ls query

RAC_1 — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:14:21 GMT

Not possible with ls.

find . -type f -ctime +180

Will display files greater than 180 days old.

Anil

Re: ls query

Steve Buchan_1 — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:16:02 GMT

I can find the files no problem, I just need to know the creation time....

Re: ls query

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:22:55 GMT

ls will display anything older than 6 months only with the Month Day and year.

If you want the time you may have to look at gnu ls which is part of the coreutils bundle.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/coreutils-5.2.1/

Re: ls query

RAC_1 — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:24:19 GMT

On unix, there are three times associated with a file/dir

atime -- access time (ll -u)
ctime -- Change time (ll -c)
If a file has not been updated since it was created ctime can be taken as creation time. but if it has been changed since then, there is no way to tell when the file was created)
mtime - modification time (ll -m)

Anil