[ILUG] Scripting Q

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Fri May 6 18:12:31 IST 2005


On Fri, 6 May 2005, Niall O Broin wrote:

> As we're being pedantic, mtime doesn't measure the time of last 
> access, but rather the time of last modification - you may have 
> been thinking of atime. And IME when people ask "How old is that 
> file ?" they mean "When was it last modified?".

Is there anything that actually cares about atime? Whats the point of 
it?

regards,
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