Date: 2024jun24 Keywords: brtfs, ext4, birth Language: bash Q. Linux: display the create date/time of a file You can use the `--time=birth` option of the familiar `ls` command

ls -l --time=birth MYFILE

Or for the current folder

ls -l --time=birth

Sort by reverse create time

ls -r -l --time=birth

Also the `stat` command can do it

stat --format '%w' MYFILE

These work all filesystems including ext4 and btrfs. Some instructions suggest using debugfs but it only supports extN.