[root@server1 /]# stat /bin/bash
Size: 722684 Blocks: 1432 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 3524863 Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2008-08-18 13:15:01.000000000 +0800
Modify: 2006-07-12 15:11:53.000000000 +0800
Change: 2008-05-14 12:01:18.000000000 +0800
Here are the definitions of the different UNIX time information on a file with how they are typically referred to in
man pages and the option to list the particular time with the ls command.
Access Time |
This is the time that the file was last accessed, read or written to.
Modify Time |
mtime | This is the time that the inode information (permissions, name, etc., the metadata, as it were) was last modified
Change Time |
This is the last time the actual contents of the file were last modified.