On Tuesday 14 September 2004 11:25 am, Michael Griffin wrote: > How do I display/retrieve the date a file was created (using bash > shell)? Hi, I don't think such metadata exist. If there is, it should be an option on the filesystem..but anyway, the standard ones are (ACM): A- access time (displayed with "ls -lu" C- changed time (displayed with "ls -lc" M- modification time (displayed with "ls -l" HTH, Jorge