Syntax
stat FILEHANDLE
stat EXPR
stat
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Definition and Usage
Returns a 13-element array giving the status info for a file, specified by either FILEHANDLE, EXPR, or $_. The list of values returned is shown below in Table. If used in a scalar context, returns 0 on failure, 1 on success. Note that support for some of these elements is system dependent.check the documentation for a complete list.
Element Description
0 Device number of file system
1 Inode number
2 File mode (type and permissions)
3 Number of (hard) links to the file
4 Numeric user ID of file.s owner
5 Numeric group ID of file.s owner
6 The device identifier (special files only)
7 File size, in bytes
8 Last access time since the epoch
9 Last modify time since the epoch
10 Inode change time (not creation time!) since the epoch
11 Preferred block size for file system I/O
12 Actual number of blocks allocated
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Return Value
ARRAY, ($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");
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At my machine it produces following result:
stat() 147, 20212116, 1177094582
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