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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Difference of 'mtime' and 'ctime'
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Date: 13 Mar 89 21:14:22 GMT
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/ hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) /  7:26 pm  Mar  8, 1989 /
In the man page of 'find' command, you can find the following two options,

          -mtime n        True if the file has been modified in n
                          days.

          -ctime n        True if the file has been changed in n days.

Can any one out there tell the difference of these two options? 
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Try reading the stat(2) man page where it describes the st_ctime and st_mtime
fields.  My documentation describes "st_ctime" as the "Last file status change
time".