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# PERL stat Function

## Syntax

stat FILEHANDLE stat EXPR stat

## Definition and Usage

Returns a 13-element array giving the status info for a file, specified by either FILEHANDLE, EXPR, or $_. The list of values returned is shown below in Table. If used in a scalar context, returns 0 on failure, 1 on success. Note that support for some of these elements is system dependent.check the documentation for a complete list.

    Element Description
    0 	Device number of file system
    1 	Inode number
    2 	File mode (type and permissions)
    3 	Number of (hard) links to the file
    4 	Numeric user ID of file.s owner
    5 	Numeric group ID of file.s owner
    6 	The device identifier (special files only)
    7 	File size, in bytes
    8 	Last access time since the epoch
    9 	Last modify time since the epoch
    10 	Inode change time (not creation time!) since the epoch
    11 	Preferred block size for file system I/O
    12	Actual number of blocks allocated

## Return Value

- ARRAY, ($device, $inode, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size, $atime, $mtime, $ctime, $blksize, $blocks)

## Example

Try out following example:

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    ($device, $inode, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size,
        $atime, $mtime, $ctime, $blksize, $blocks) =
          stat("/etc/passwd");

    print("stat() $device, $inode, $ctime\n");

At my machine it produces following result:

    stat() 147, 20212116, 1177094582

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