[coreutils] Re: crtime on ext4 or ntfs

[Jim Meyering]

Vincent GACOUGNOLLE wrote:
> Sorry if I am wrong, I am a new-by.
>
> I am looking for core utils manipulating crtime on ext4 and ntfs.
>
> In a large vision, I would like get from coreutils the ability to use new
> file attributes we can found on modern FS like ext4 and ntfs.
>
> After seen sources ofr last version, I found ls command from GNU coreutils is
> laking crtime usage. We have an answer here:
> http://www.unix.com/man-page/OpenSolaris/1/ls/
>
> With  new option to ls:
> SYNOPSIS
>        /usr/bin/ls [-aAbcCdeEfFghHilLmnopqrRsStuvVx1@]
>        [-/ c | v] [-% atime | crtime | ctime | mtime | all] [file]...
>
> Thanks to say me if there is any improvement planned and where I can find it
> on this site.

Please write to address@hidden (Cc'd) in the future.
You probably want the new %W format (it prints a file's 'birth-time')
that is supported in coreutils-8.6's stat program.