On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:06:18PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > While perusing my Daemon book I noticed that it mentioned the existence > of the st_birthtime field in struct stat. I then also noticed that not > many utilities expose this: the Daemon mentions dump(8), restore(8) and > the only other one I could find was stat(1). > > The attached patch adds st_birthtime related primaries to find(1), being > -Bmin, -Btime, -Bnewer et al. These let you use an inode's real > creation time in find primitives. I have chosen 'B' over 'b' to match > the format specifier from stat(1). It seems to do the right thing on UFS > 1, 2 and MSDOS file systems, but some more testing would be appreciated.
Note that there is a line out of place in the manpage diff - this is corrected in a later version of the patch at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ceri/find-Btime.diff Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere
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