On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Adi Stav wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:27:18PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On 14 Jan 2002, Erez Doron wrote: > > > > > hi > > > > > > when i do 'ls -l' , i get the file modification time > > > how do i get file creation time ? > > I don't think ls or any other tool can give you this information. > Creation time is not one of the metadata kept about files. Ext2fs or > Reiserfs might or might not have special features, but these would > be filesystem specific. > > man ls to see which time information you can receive, though. > > > Try using 'find' instead of 'ls'. The option -printf is very powerful. > > > > I'm not sure, though, how to list only the files in the current directory, > > and not in subdirectories. > > -maxdepth (nonportable, but then again so is -printf...) > > > For a light abuse of this feature of find, see > > http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/Packages/mk_index.sh > > Nice... That's not abuse, that's the cleanest way to do it in shell > CGI IMHO. Also check out the nonportable stat(1)... >
Actually, Tzafrir's snippet may not work properly if the filename contains such characters as double-quotes, ampersands and other characters that confuse HTML. For intance: shlomif@comnet55:~# find \"hello\" -printf "\"%p\"\n" ""hello"" > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let's suppose you have a table with 2^n cups..." "Wait a second - is n a natural number?" ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
