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Re: Help: Bash script that show you the last file created?
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Jan Schampera |
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Re: Help: Bash script that show you the last file created? |
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Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:44:16 +0100 |
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Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> Without looking there: It can't be documented, because there's no
>> general way to retrieve the creation time of a file.
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> the op wasnt asking for the time, they were asking for the last created file.
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> and the ls man page talks how to sort by ctime.
Yes, that's the issue. ctime is not creation time. There is no standard
timestamp for "file creation". This doesn't exist. Ergo: No way to sort
by creation time.
J.