Difference of 'mtime' and 'ctime'

[Ric Urrutia]

In article <9316 at orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe at nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He) writes:
>In the man page of 'find' command, you can find the following two options,
>
>          -mtime n        True if the file has been modified in n
>                          days.
>
>          -ctime n        True if the file has been changed in n days.
>
>Can any one out there tell the difference of these two options? 
>
>Thanks in advance.


ctime is the date and time when the inode info changed last (such as link count, mode, uid, gid, etc.)

mtime is the date and time when the file contents changed
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