Feb 082010
How to get the file creation time?
Answer:
Linux never stores file creation time.
You can only get access, modify & change (change of status, e.g. permission) time of a file with stats command
# stats test.txt
stat test.txt
File: `test.txt'
Size: 25557 Blocks: 56 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: ca01h/51713d Inode: 32714 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1001/ user) Gid: ( 1000/ user)
Access: 2010-01-02 18:53:46.000000000 +0800
Modify: 1970-01-01 17:13:08.000000000 +0800
Change: 2010-01-02 18:53:46.000000000 +0800
