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Title:
When is Birth Date for a file actually used?
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May 24, 2017
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When I type the following:
$ IFS=$'\n'; arr=( $(stat "/bin/bash") ); for i in ${arr[@]} ; do echo $i ; done
File: '/bin/bash'
Size: 1037528 Blocks: 2032 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 823h/2083d Inode: 656086 Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2017-05-23 16:38:03.848124217 -0600
Modify: 2017-05-16 06:49:55.000000000 -0600
Change: 2017-05-18 07:43:22.946694155 -0600
Birth: -
I see the Birth Date for /bin/bash is null / empty. When is this field ever used and what purpose might it have in Linux when it works?
I appreciate there is a shorter way of using stat but this came up during development cycle and I copy and pasted.