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How to find when the last modification happened in a directory

Use the du command to scan a directory and find when the last modification was made. The related modification time will be displayed when using du with the --time option.

# du -sh --time /var
1.2G	2024-06-01 21:45	/var

The time option will show the last modification time of a file or subdirectory within the directory that was specified.

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