Istvan Gabor wrote:
Both ext3 and reiserfs do not store the creation time of the file. There is apparently little use for this, and you fall in the minority who really misses this.
I was afraid that it's not possible.
How could I rename the files in a batch so that the file names themselves would contain the date? Eg. file-name.txt --> file-name_date.txt I have many files I'd like to rename.
Something on the lines of "mv file-name.txt file-name`date`.txt. When you enclose a command in a pair of ` (that's the key to the left of the number 1) the results of the command are used. You'd use the date format you need. For example date +%jreturns the day of the year. Man date for details. Once you have a working command, you can include it in an appropriate script to do what you want.