Re: date problem with ls -la --time=ctime

[John Haxby <jch scalix com>]

Rainer Traut wrote:

> Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
> It looks now this way:
> find /tmp -type f -user notes -iname "eo*" -amin +15 -exec ls -la {}
> --time=atime \;
xargs is usually *much* quicker :-)

> But I still don't understand why the date of three days ago.
> The file did not exist at that time.
> I deleted all files this morning and confimed /tmp has no eo* files 
> anymore.

Me neither.  However, the utimes() system call can set both the mtime 
and the atime (changing the times sets the ctime)

jch