find: Time
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1 2.3 Time
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1 Each file has three time stamps, which record the last time that certain
1 operations were performed on the file:
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1 1. access (read the file's contents)
1 2. change the status (modify the file or its attributes)
1 3. modify (change the file's contents)
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1 Some systems also provide a timestamp that indicates when a file was
1 _created_. For example, the UFS2 filesystem under NetBSD-3.1 records
1 the _birth time_ of each file. This information is also available under
1 other versions of BSD and some versions of Cygwin. However, even on
1 systems which support file birth time, files may exist for which this
1 information was not recorded (for example, UFS1 file systems simply do
1 not contain this information).
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1 You can search for files whose time stamps are within a certain age
1 range, or compare them to other time stamps.
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