If you remember, all files and directories in Unix filesystems have three timestamps associated with them – atime, ctime and mtime. Since questions about modifying access time (atime) and modification time (mtime) are quite frequent in my website logs, I thought I'd explain how it is done.
How to view atime, ctime and mtime
Before we go any further, I'd like to remind you that using stat command is probably the easiest way to look at all the three timestamps associated with each file:
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