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linux disk caching affects access times reported by stat?
On Ubuntu 12.04 I did the following
stat a file
cat the same file
stat the file again
cat the file again after 5 min
stat the file
The access time reported at 3. reflects the point at which 2. was ...
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How to compare attributes of two files on Linux ext4
cmp(1) will of course tell me if the contents of two files are identical, but in order to test restoring from backups I also wanted to compare the relevant (!) file attributes.
So if I did something ...
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Does inotify fire a notification when a write is started or when it is completed?
Imagine two processes, a reader and a writer, communicating via a regular file on an ext3 fs. Reader has an inotify IN_MODIFY watch on the file. Writer writes 1000 bytes to the file, in a single ...
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Is there a way to view a list of timestamp history of a document/file via terminal/command line?
This seems like it's simple but for some reason, it's not:
Problem:
I've been writing a paper- not even a script...just an economics paper- over the last 3 months. I'm trying to determine how much ...
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Access history of a file
I was wondering if there are any tools to keep track of the access history of a file. I know of stat, but as far as I understand, it only returns information about the last time the file was accessed.
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Change file creation time on a FAT filesystem
I need a way to change the creation time of a file on a mounted FAT32 volume. I have to do that because my MP3 player will only read files sorted by this creation time.
If I can find a way to set the ...
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Error when using stat, errno=2
The case is as this, I create many files, and after the file generation, I use stat to get the all files info under the directory.
The purpose is to purge all the files which are old than the ...
