CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Bhargav Kumar R
Bhargav Kumar R

Reputation: 2200

How to find file creation date in linux using java?

I need to get file creation date in linux machine using java. Many workarounds worked good in windows but failed in linux. Need a way to get file creation time in linux. Please note that my linux machine has java6 installed. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in adavance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4821

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785058

You can use stat command in Linux to get various date though creation date isn't available.

Instead you can get these 3 dates about a file:

  • Time of last access
  • Time of last modification (content of the file)
  • Time of last change (metadata of file)

EDIT:

For getting creation/modification times of a file in Java (if using JDK 1.7) see: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/fileAttr.html

As per this document:

A word about time stamps: The set of basic attributes includes three time stamps: creationTime, lastModifiedTime, and lastAccessTime. Any of these time stamps might not be supported in a particular implementation, in which case the corresponding accessor method returns an implementation-specific value.

Unfortunately Linux/Unix doesn't store file's creation time hence you cannot get it.

PS: If you can use ext4 filesystem then you can get file's creation time in Unix/Linux.

Upvotes: 2

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