Finding ctime,mtime and atime

[John Wilson]

Hello sir,

Can any one help me out from this problem,I am using Linux operating system and I have done all type of directory and files operation in linux but I am unable to find the ctime, mtime and a time for particular file or directory.

Can anyone tell me how to find these all things for my existing files and directories.

[Lillebror]

There are so many ways to find out the ctime,mtime and atime of a file or directory.

When you use the ls -l command,all the files stored on the hard disk are listed after issuing this command.The timestamp of every files and directories are being listed and you can check the section of the timestamp of the files.

You can execute the command as follows for a particular file:

# ls -l My_file1.txt

[jesse]

Yes Dear,

You can use the ls command which can show all what you requires.

/home/danny/sedscripts> ls -lc
total 48
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dhawalen ccm_scd 23 Aug 10 10:17 ouput
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dhawalen ccm_scd 147 Aug 10 10:27 sedscript
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dhawalen ccm_scd 134 Aug 10 10:17 testdata
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If you are getting another way to find out then please post me the way.

[SalVatore]

Hello,

You can check it through another method which is a beautiful option provided by the Linux command library.You should go for the MAN help command which will show you a long list of options through which you can find more and more details.

ls -ltr
ls -lutr
ls -lctr

Check MAN page also.OK

Thanks.

[Dr. V]

Take a look on the following demonstration -

$ sudo debugfs /dev/sda2
[sudo] password for Melody:
debugfs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
debugfs:  cd /home/Melody
debugfs:  stat filename
debugfs:  quit

The above described command are well enough to tell you the description of the file and directory time stamp in the third line from the top.

[Devasis]

The above suggested command and procedure is well described but if you will look for a small piece of the written code.

There is one small component is hidden in the group command,The small bit of code can be used to find the description of particular file and the command would be issued associated with the name of file.

The command is inherited as follows -

$ stat <Name_of_file>