File creation times

[phil cook]

Hello

Is there any way to ascertain the creation date & time of files in a HP-UX filesystem?

Thanks

[Fedon Kadifeli]

The following perl script displays the i-node information you want. Note that it requires perl ver. 5...

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

sorry, on HP-UX there is no status entry for file creation time.
Only these 3 stats are held in the inode:
mtime = last modification time
ctime = last files status change time
atime = last access time

Regards

[Dan Hetzel]

Phil,

As soon as a file is changed, its creation date is lost forever. There is no way to retrieve that information.

Best regards,

Dan

[Sandor Horvath_2]

Hi !

I'm afraid no. Only last access, last modification, or last status change. See stat structure.

Sorry,
regards, Saa

[phil cook]

Fellas

We thought this to be the case, but thanks for confirming it.

Phil