[OpenIndiana-discuss] using touch ... whats wrong here

[James Carlson]

On 12/03/15 04:56, Peter Tribble wrote:
> You're mixing the various timestamps.

Indeed; that's the problem.

> access, shown by ls -lu
> modify (of data), shown by ls -l
> creation (or modify metadata), shown by ls -lc

Perhaps a nit, but one I think is important.  UNIX (including
OpenIndiana) does not keep track of file or directory "creation" time.
The 'ctime' element tracks the last attribute change time.  There's no
way (in UNIX) of knowing when a file was created.

And, yes, the OP should be using the file's mtime (the "-newer" option).
 The attribute change time is rarely what you want.  :-/

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