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Hi, How can I find the creation date of a file in a shell script? Thanks, Rotem.

Name: nails
Date: December 6, 2005 at 11:29:10 Pacific

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Sorry, but I don't think unix saves the file creation time - just the modification time.

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Hi, If there is no creation date, then how can I get the modification date of the file in the format DD/MM/YYYY ? Thanks, Rotem

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Name: nails
Date: December 7, 2005 at 08:17:06 Pacific

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You'll want to use the ls command. Take a look at this link: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9455/ur0412d/ur0412d.html see the third tip.

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