On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 11:34, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > 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 > Then does the test command with nt only test against a-c-m? michael