Re: How to find all files created on a specific date???

[rpjday <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Michael Pelley wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I must be going through cronic brain-fade, but how can I find all files on a
> system that were created on a specific date?  I looked at find, but I can't
> see any way to use that.

you can't since creation time is not stored with any unix file.  there
are three timestamps you can examine:

$ ls -l /etc/passwd			most recent contents modified
$ ls -lu /etc/passwd			most recent access
$ ls -lc /etc/passwd			most recent status change

  that last one refers to the most recent time the inode contents were
changed.  no creation time.  never has been.

rday

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