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How to get information about a file such as last access, modified or changed time using Linux?

Question: How to get information about a file such as last access, modified or changed time using Linux?

NOTE: Tested and tried on Ubuntu 9.04

Answer:

By using the 'stat' command.

stat = Display file or file system status

Example:

Input:

stat photos-20090916-0.db

Output:

File: `photos-20090916-0.db'
Size: 3072          Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 807h/2055d    Inode: 529743      Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/  user)   Gid: ( 1000/  user)
Access: 2009-09-16 08:22:12.085106864 +0200
Modify: 2009-09-16 08:22:11.490127752 +0200
Change: 2009-09-16 08:22:11.526128486 +0200