last modified file time

How do I find out the time/date a file was last modified (ls -al does not
seem to show it - it appears to show creation time)

thanks

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 23:19 +0000, Jacco wrote:
> How do I find out the time/date a file was last modified (ls -al does not
> seem to show it - it appears to show creation time)
>
> thanks
>

'man ls' and look for the '--time' flag ;)
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Jon

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:19:22 GMT, Jacco
<jacco425@hotmail.com> wrote:
> How do I find out the time/date a file was last modified (ls -al does not
> seem to show it - it appears to show creation time)
>
You're mistaken, Unix filesystems don't even store a creation time. Each
file has three timestamps called mtime, ctime and atime. See "man ls",
"man touch" or "man find". "ls -l" shows the mtime. You can see ctime
with "ls -lc" or atime with "ls -lu". Mtime is updated when you change
a file's contents, ctime when you change its name or permissions. Atime
is when a file was last accessed.


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