Questions tagged [stat]
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What is the difference between Modify and Change in stat output
What is the difference between Modify and Change in stat output? When I run this command:
stat myfile
I am getting two lines with identical timestamps:
Modify: 2015-03-24 12:34:56.12345678
Change: 2015-03-24 12:34:56.12345678
What is the deal?

AlexC
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What does mean the second field of sadf`s output?
When you use sadf to make a report from sysstat's datafile, the following lines will be shown:
ncm 3 2015-05-11 03:57:15 UTC all %%user 0.08
ncm 3 2015-05-11 03:57:15 UTC all %%nice 0.00
ncm 3 2015-05-11…

SuB
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Why "/proc/pid/stat" have 2 type?
When I run command: cat /proc/$pid/stat, it returns string like this:
type 1:
11473 (abc) R 11471 8438 8438 0 -1 4194304 113 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 1 0
740394567 13586432 387 18446744073709551615 4194304 4196636
140722465367280 140722465367056…

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New STATX: how do I find the creation time (birth time) of a file?
How to use the new statx function to get only one information: the creation time (birth time) of a file.
I have tried in terminal command line without success.

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