filectime
Gets inode change time of file
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intfilectime
stringfilename
Gets the inode change time of a file.
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filename
Path to the file.
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Returns the time the file was last changed, &return.falseforfailure;.
The time is returned as a Unix timestamp.
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A filectime example
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Note: In most Unix filesystems, a file is considered changed when its
inode data is changed; that is, when the permissions, owner, group, or
other metadata from the inode is updated. See also
filemtime (which is what you want to use when you
want to create "Last Modified" footers on web pages) and
fileatime.
Note also that in some Unix texts the ctime of a file is referred to as
being the creation time of the file. This is wrong. There is no creation
time for Unix files in most Unix filesystems.
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filemtime