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PERL utime Function



Syntax

utime ATIME, MTIME, LIST


Definition and Usage

Sets the access and modification times specified by ATIME and MTIME for the list of files in LIST. The values of ATIME and MTIME must be numerical. The inode modification time is set to the current time. The time must be in the numeric format (for example, seconds since January 1, 1970).

Return Value

  • Number of files updated

Example

Create a file t.txt in /tmp directory and use the following program to set its modification and access time to the current time.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

utime(time(), time(), "/tmp/t.txt");



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