find the creation date of a file in typescript

To find the creation date of a file in TypeScript, we need to use the Node.js file system module fs. The fs module provides methods to interact with the file system of a computer.

Here's the code to find the creation date of a file:

index.ts
import * as fs from 'fs';

const filePath = 'path/to/your/file.txt';

fs.stat(filePath, (error, stats) => {
  if (error) {
    console.error(error);
    return;
  }
  
  const creationDate = stats.birthtime;
  console.log(`The file ${filePath} was created on ${creationDate}`);
});
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In the above code, we first import the fs module using the import statement. We then define the file path of the file whose creation date we want to find.

We then use the fs.stat method to retrieve information about the file. The fs.stat method takes in two arguments - the file path and a callback function that will be called once the information about the file is retrieved.

In the callback function, we first check if an error occurred while retrieving the file information. If there was an error, we log the error to the console and return.

If there was no error, we get the birthtime property from the stats object that was returned by the fs.stat method. The birthtime property represents the creation time of the file.

We then log the file path and creation date to the console.

Note that the fs.stat method returns other properties as well that you can use to get information about the file.