Stat Symbolic Link
stat file
it only shows data on when the symbolic link was created.
I was hoping to get data on when the origin had been modified.
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stat calls lstat(2) (by default) to get it's data. As the symlink occupies an inode in the filesystem, it gets the relevant data from that inode, which includes the modification time.
If you want to follow symlinks, stat has -L (--dereference) option, which uses stat(2) instead of lstat(2):
stat -L file
