[problem]
You want to view seconds since last change or use Perl to process a number of files.
Or maybe you just want a programmatic way to deal with file details, using something similar to the UNIX stat C routine.
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[solution]
Run stat against a file and display inode change time since epoch. See my other tip on converting to local time.
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[example]
Excellent for showing the exact time in seconds, since the last change.
Rather than the normal hours and minutes from ls.
Replace /tmp/js with filename.
$ perl -e '$ctime=(stat("/tmp/js"))[10];print("$ctimen");'
1181102779
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[reference]
[tags]Perl file handling, Perl stat, UNIX stat, Perl Coding School[/tags]
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