| Stephen Gran on 24 Jan 2007 00:45:18 -0000 |
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:07:56PM -0500, gyoza@comcast.net said: > OK, I see that it isn't quick and easy. heh > > We are looking to change the creation time. From what I understand, > ctime is the closest thing to creation time. Just a side note: 'ctime' in my mind always means seconds since the epoch. I find other useages confusing, so maybe remembering to clarify in the future would be helpful for dunces like me. There are 3 times associated with a file: status change, modification, and access. As others have noted, changing status change time without extraordinary measures is interesting. Changing modification times or access times is trivial (this is how touch works, for instance). This simple perl script will do it: #!/usr/bin/perl my $atime = my $mtime = time; utime $atime, $mtime, @ARGV; But I suspect that's not what you're looking for. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Emotions are alien to me. I'm a | | steve@lobefin.net | scientist. -- Spock, "This Side of | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Paradise", stardate 3417.3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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