C:\Users\alex>perl -MData::Dumper -E "for $x (chr(34).chr(34),'.','..') { @a=stat($x); say Dumper(\@a) }" $VAR1 = [ 2, 0, 16895, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1340557931, 1340557931, 1336337436, '', '' ]; $VAR1 = [ 2, 0, 16895, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1340557931, 1340557931, 1336337436, '', '' ]; $VAR1 = [ 2, 0, 16749, 1, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1339842184, 1339842184, 1247541608, '', '' ]; C:\Users\alex>