From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Fergus Daly <fergusd84@outlook.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Is it possible to alter Birth time?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:09:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <895942298.20201012100905@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB6PR03MB3013872D9D5E20F9F0213BDEA40B0@DB6PR03MB3013.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com>
Greetings, Fergus Daly!
> In Cygwin (and on some, not all, Linux file systems) the command
> $ stat filename
> shows all of Access, Modify, Change and Birth times of a file.
> The command
> $ touch [options] filename
> will alter some or all of Access, Modify, Change times, as specified
> in [options].
> Is it possible in Cygwin (or for that matter in Windows) to alter the
> Birth time of a file or directory?
Technically yes, but not with standard tools.
You'd need something like filemanager with necessary capability, or a custom
written tool.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, October 12, 2020 10:07:57
Sorry for my terrible english...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-12 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 9:33 Fergus Daly
2020-10-08 13:49 ` Eric Blake
2020-10-12 7:09 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
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