The stat command is useful for efficiently seeing lots of file metadata in one shot
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My question is why is the "birth" always "-" ? I've looked at multiple files and it's always the unknown - value.
The man page says that "-" means the birth time of the file is unknown, but why is the time of creation be unknown?
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stat /etc/fstab File: `/etc/fstab' Size: 469 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 18087968 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Context: system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 Access: 2012-12-28 03:12:33.496260215 -0500 Modify: 2012-07-22 13:20:30.768864812 -0400 Change: 2012-07-22 13:20:33.957751794 -0400 Birth: - |
The man page says that "-" means the birth time of the file is unknown, but why is the time of creation be unknown?