Re: Latest File Creation Time

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>    1. Re: Latest File Creation Time (Mani)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:42:16 +0530 (IST)
> From: Mani <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Latest File Creation Time
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> I need the 'timestamp' of a file which is latest.
> I don't know how long before the file was created.
> 
> even it may be last month or last year or today.
> 
> On 30 Jan 2004, Anthony J Placilla wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 08:04, Mani wrote:
> > > Hi 
> > >    Is there any one line Linux command to find
> the creation time
> > > of a file in a folder which is created recently
> ?
> > 
> > are you looking for something like
> > 
> > find /tmp -mtime 1 -name "*" |xargs -l ls -l
> >

or perhaps you are looking for

#ls --time=ctime -l

to list the creation times in a directory.
info ls 
gives sort options and more help than man l

cheers

John Larkworthy

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