PERL Beginners - obtaining file properties

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obtaining file properties

Sam DeForest

2007-07-15, 4:00 am

Hi folks, noob here...

Im looking to produce a script that will return to me some file properties in windows. I know for unix I can use 'stat'. The only thing that comes close (as i can find right now) is use of the Win32::File module. However that would just return the attributes. Im looking to find "size" and "create date/time". Could someone point me in a good direction so I can read into further?
I appreciate the help,

Sam

Ken Foskey

2007-07-15, 4:00 am

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 01:05 -0400, Sam DeForest wrote:
> Hi folks, noob here...
>
> Im looking to produce a script that will return to me some file properties in windows. I know for unix I can use 'stat'. The only thing that comes close (as i can find right now) is use of the Win32::File module. However that would just return the at
tributes. Im looking to find "size" and "create date/time". Could someone point me in a good direction so I can read into further?
> I appreciate the help,

size is dead easy -s filename

--
Ken Foskey
FOSS developer

yaron@kahanovitch.com

2007-07-15, 4:00 am

Hi,

You can use File::stat.
perldoc -f stat
or
http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/per...ib/File/stat.pm

Yaron Kahanovitch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam DeForest" <sam.ml@walpolewood.net>
To: beginners@perl.org
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:05:15 AM (GMT+0200) Auto-Detected
Subject: obtaining file properties

Hi folks, noob here...

Im looking to produce a script that will return to me some file properties in windows. I know for unix I can use 'stat'. The only thing that comes close (as i can find right now) is use of the Win32::File module. However that would just return the attr
ibutes. Im looking to find "size" and "create date/time". Could someone point me in a good direction so I can read into further?
I appreciate the help,

Sam

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