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File handling - UNIX stat

Problem

You want to view seconds since last change or use Perl to process a number of files.

Or maybe you just want a programmatic way to deal with file details, using something similar to the UNIX stat C routine.

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June 6th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
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Excellent for showing the exact time in seconds, since the last change. Rather than the normal hours and minutes from ls. Replace /tmp/js with filename. $ perl -e '$ctime=(stat("/tmp/js"))[10];print("$ctime\n");' 1181102779

File handling - UNIX stat

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