Question

I need to see what stat() command is returning. How can i do that ? I used the following, but it didn’t work :-

print(stat($filename"));

I mean the command got executed, but it did not print the value that stat must have returned.

Answer 1

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/stat.html:

($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,
       $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks)
           = stat($filename);

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Also,

The File::stat module provides a convenient, by-name access mechanism:

use File::stat;
$sb = stat($filename);
printf "File is %s, size is %s, perm %04o, mtime %s\n",
       $filename, $sb->size, $sb->mode & 07777,
       scalar localtime $sb->mtime;