find last modified files linux code example

Example 1: linux show last modified time of file

stat myfilename.txt | grep "Modify"

Example 2: linux see when file created

stat foo.txt
  File: `foo.txt'
  Size: 239             Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 900h/2304d      Inode: 121037111   Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/  adrian)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Access: 2011-10-26 13:57:15.000000000 -0600
Modify: 2011-10-26 13:57:15.000000000 -0600
Change: 2011-10-26 13:57:15.000000000 -0600
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