file creation date

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:25:29AM -0400, Michael Griffin wrote:
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> How do I display/retrieve the date a file was created (using bash
> shell)?

The command to see this type of meta data is 'stat' (/usr/bin/stat)
See also the system calls for stat().

Bash has various built in tests for conditional expressions that depend
on the result of stat() stystem calls.

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