Re: File Age

2001-05-25 Thread Paul
--- Jeff Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 25, Keith A. Humphrey said: > > >Is there a perl command that can tell me the age of a file? > > Not on Unix. You might be able to get a Windows or Mac specific > module to get the creation date of a file on those systems, but Unix > does not

Re: File Age

2001-05-25 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Keith A. Humphrey wrote: > Is there a perl command that can tell me the age of a file? -M age since last modification, in days -C age since last access, in days -A age since last inode change in days Note that these return the age at the time your script ran. You should se

Re: File Age

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On May 25, Keith A. Humphrey said: >Is there a perl command that can tell me the age of a file? Not on Unix. You might be able to get a Windows or Mac specific module to get the creation date of a file on those systems, but Unix does not store the creation date of a file -- you can, however, ge

File Age

2001-05-25 Thread Keith A. Humphrey
Is there a perl command that can tell me the age of a file? Keith Humphrey Software Engineer NetRail, Inc. 1-888-NETRAIL ext. 4215