12 Mar
2020
12 Mar
'20
11:38 a.m.
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020, Steve Nickolas wrote:
I felt -c and -u were meaningless, but that's
because of the filesystems
I usually work with that do not have functional equivalents. -u for one
is completely useless on VFAT even though it has such timestamps!
YMMV.
I find those flags really useful when doing forensic analysis on a file
system :-) One particular instance was at $ORKPLACE some years back when
a critical chunk of a file system had somehow disappeared overnight (it
was our source base!). I got to work by comparing login sessions with
those someone-unknown "ls" flags and had just about nailed the perp who
was online at the time when I was ordered off it in no uncertain terms.
Ummm, did I mention that my then $BOSS had a habit of working from home
after a few (and quite a few) drinks? As I said, I was this -><- far away
from fingering him... As it stood I knew who it was but wasn't able to
prove it in time.
-- Dave