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How to get information about a file such as last access, modified or changed time using Linux
NOTE: Tested and tried on Ubuntu 9.04
Answer:
By using the ‘stat‘ command.
stat = Display file or file system status
Example:
Input:
stat photos-20090916-0.db
Output:
File: `photos-20090916-0.db' Size: 3072 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 529743 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ user) Gid: ( 1000/ user) Access: 2009-09-16 08:22:12.085106864 +0200 Modify: 2009-09-16 08:22:11.490127752 +0200 Change: 2009-09-16 08:22:11.526128486 +0200
