Re: timestamp conversion and filepattern search

On 2007-02-05, bobrics@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
....
Stat looks useful. I've looked at different formatting options that it
allows to use (-c), and I did not find the option to get the time when
the file was created, only when it was last accessed/modified/etc.
Which command will allow me to do this?

The creation date is not stored anywhere on *nix systems.

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