Difference between revisions of "Mtime"
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Time of last modification of a file, the information is taken from the [[inode]]. | Time of last modification of a file, the information is taken from the [[inode]]. | ||
| − | $ stat -s [[variables|$ | + | $ stat -s [[variables|$file_or_diskname]] | tr ' ' '\n' | grep mtime |
st_mtime=1130490970 | st_mtime=1130490970 | ||
$ date -r 1130490970 | $ date -r 1130490970 | ||
Revision as of 12:43, 28 October 2005
Time of last modification of a file, the information is taken from the inode.
$ stat -s $file_or_diskname | tr ' ' '\n' | grep mtime st_mtime=1130490970 $ date -r 1130490970 Fri Oct 28 11:16:10 CEST 2005 $ ls -lT disk -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 33554432 Oct 28 11:16:10 2005 disk
If a file has been modified the mtime will change to that date. The mtime can be changed in a file:
# date -r 0 Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 CET 1970 # touch -mt 197001010100.01 disk # ls -lT disk -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 33554432 Jan 1 01:00:01 1970 disk
When a files mtime is changed the ctime will update naturally to the date when this happened.
