Difference of 'mtime' and 'ctime'

[Jim Washer]

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? 
>


the svid entry differs from you message. It states

	-ctime n	True if the file *INODE* has been changed in n days

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