use strict; use warnings; use POSIX; use File::Spec; my $inputFile = "inputFileInfo.txt"; my $outputFile = strftime( "resultsFile_%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.txt", localtime(time())); my $pathToCheck = File::Spec->catfile( 'c:', 'temp' ); open( IN, '<', $inputFile ) or die "$inputFile: $!\n"; open( OUT, '>', $outputFile ) or die "$outputFile: $!\n"; while ( ) { chomp; my $checkFile = File::Spec->catfile( $pathToCheck, $_ ); my @stats = stat $checkFile; if ( @stats ) { printf OUT ( "%s: %d, %s\n", $checkFile, $stats[7], scalar( localtime( $stats[9] ))); } else { print OUT "$checkFile: stat failed (file not readable or not found)\n"; } }