Re: find: files *created* before a specified time ???

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 19:54 -0600, helices wrote:
> I need to automate the deletion of files in a specified directory that
> were created X number of days ago, or more.
> 
> Usually, I use `find' and -mtime; but, I do not believe that any
> combination of atime, ctime nor mtime get me what I need.  Am I missing
> something here?
> 
> What do you think?

Do ext2/3, ReiserFS, etc, even store create-time?  I don't think
so.  NTFS & ODS-2 (the OpenVMS filesystem) do, but that won't help
us.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html
    getctime(path)
    Return the system's ctime which, on some systems (like Unix)
    is the time of the last change, and, on others (like Windows),
    is the creation time for path. 

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