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Show all timestamps and permissions of a file

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Adjust the values, the command updates live
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stat /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-config.php

Prints all metadata of a file: size, inode, permissions in octal and text form, owner and the timestamps Access, Modify, Change and, if supported by the filesystem, Birth. Modify is the last content change, Change the last change to content or metadata.

Note: Modify can be set freely with touch, Change cannot. If Change differs significantly, the file may have been tampered with afterwards.

Also searched as

  • when was this file modified linux
  • file creation date
  • check file timestamps
  • show file information

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Find files modified between two dates

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs -type f -newermt '2026-10-01' ! -newermt '2026-10-08' -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM %p\n' | sort
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Find files modified in the last minutes

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs -type f -mmin -60 -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM %p\n' | sort -r
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Find files older than X days

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com -type f -mtime +30 -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %p\n' | sort | head -100
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Detect modified files of installed packages

#dpkg --verify
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Find recently modified PHP files

$find /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs -type f -name '*.php' -mtime -7 -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM %p\n' | sort -r
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Show permissions and owner in octal notation

$stat -c '%a %U:%G %n' /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/* /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/.[!.]*
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