On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:25:29AM -0400, Michael Griffin wrote: ... > How do I display/retrieve the date a file was created (using bash > shell)? The command to see this type of meta data is 'stat' (/usr/bin/stat) See also the system calls for stat(). Bash has various built in tests for conditional expressions that depend on the result of stat() stystem calls. -- T o m M i t c h e l l In the USA, vote informed, second Tuesday Nov 2004.