I am using Debian 7.2 and would like to know the shell command for finding the MAC time of a file or directory.  I triedman -k MACand got a lot of hits about macros.  I then triedman -k MAC timeand got nothing.
How can I finding the Modify/Access/Change time of a file or directory?
command line;timestamps
By MAC I assume you're asking about Modify, Access, and Change timestamps. You can get these from the stat command.Example$ ls -l LICENSE -rw-rw-r-- 1 saml saml 810 Jul  5  2012 LICENSE$ stat LICENSE   File: `LICENSE'  Size: 810         Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular fileDevice: fd02h/64770d    Inode: 11409231    Links: 1Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: (  500/    saml)   Gid: (  501/    saml)Access: 2012-07-05 19:05:22.000000000 -0400Modify: 2012-07-05 19:05:22.000000000 -0400Change: 2013-10-16 21:17:31.148341667 -0400DetailsAccess: 2012-07-05 19:05:22.000000000 -0400  Last access time of the file.Modify: 2012-07-05 19:05:22.000000000 -0400  Last modification time of the file.Change: 2013-10-16 21:17:31.148341667 -0400  Last change time of the inode data of that file.