There are three times associated with each file in macOS or Linux/Unix file systems,
- Birth: It is the time when the file was created.
- Access: It is the last time that the file was read.
- Modify: It is the last time that the file was changed.
- Change: It is the last time that the file was modified i.e. its permissions were changed.
In order to access the above time details of a file using terminal you can make use of stat command.
stat filename
Example:
$ stat myFile.txt
File: myFile.txt
Size: 124 Blocks: 1 IO Block: 65536 regular file
Device: 5eefa45356/1592753459d Inode: 10423523538299131 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (197609/Code2care) Gid: (197121/ UNKNOWN)
Access: 2020-07-19 13:01:52.214112500 -0600
Modify: 2020-07-19 12:52:26.998494400 -0600
Change: 2020-07-19 12:52:26.998494400 -0600
Birth: 2020-07-19 13:01:52.213113100 -0600
$ stat --help
Usage: stat [OPTION]... FILE...
Display file or file system status.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-L, --dereference follow links
-f, --file-system display file system status instead of file status
-c --format=FORMAT use the specified FORMAT instead of the default;
output a newline after each use of FORMAT
--printf=FORMAT like --format, but interpret backslash escapes,
and do not output a mandatory trailing newline;
if you want a newline, include \n in FORMAT
-t, --terse print the information in terse form
--append-exe append .exe if cygwin magic was needed
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
The valid format sequences for files (without --file-system):
%a access rights in octal (note '#' and '0' printf flags)
%A access rights in human readable form
%b number of blocks allocated (see %B)
%B the size in bytes of each block reported by %b
%C SELinux security context string
%d device number in decimal
%D device number in hex
%f raw mode in hex
%F file type
%g group ID of owner
%G group name of owner
%h number of hard links
%i inode number
%m mount point
%n file name
%N quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link
%o optimal I/O transfer size hint
%s total size, in bytes
%t major device type in hex, for character/block device special files
%T minor device type in hex, for character/block device special files
%u user ID of owner
%U user name of owner
%w time of file birth, human-readable; - if unknown
%W time of file birth, seconds since Epoch; 0 if unknown
%x time of last access, human-readable
%X time of last access, seconds since Epoch
%y time of last data modification, human-readable
%Y time of last data modification, seconds since Epoch
%z time of last status change, human-readable
%Z time of last status change, seconds since Epoch
Valid format sequences for file systems:
%a free blocks available to non-superuser
%b total data blocks in file system
%c total file nodes in file system
%d free file nodes in file system
%f free blocks in file system
%i file system ID in hex
%l maximum length of filenames
%n file name
%s block size (for faster transfers)
%S fundamental block size (for block counts)
%t file system type in hex
%T file system type in human readable form
--terse is equivalent to the following FORMAT:
%n %s %b %f %u %g %D %i %h %t %T %X %Y %Z %W %o
--terse --file-system is equivalent to the following FORMAT:
%n %i %l %t %s %S %b %f %a %c %d
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually supersedes
the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.
GNU coreutils online help: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Full documentation at: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/stat
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) stat invocation'
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