also sprach Sven Burgener (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 06:34:44PM +0100): > Can one determine *when* a file was moved into a specific directory? I > guess not, as that means making a change to the directory in question > and not the file.
if you are only interested in one-level depth, then an addition/change/deletion in a directory changes the directories mtime. so you can check on that... this does not work recursively though. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- "in contrast to the what-you-see-is-what-you-get philosophy, unix is the you-asked-for-it,-you-got-it operating system." --scott lee