in reply to Comparing modification times like make
The Perl Cookbook recommends
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Recipe 9.1. Getting and Setting Timestamps
9.1.1. Problem
You need to retrieve or alter when a file was last modified (written or changed) or accessed (read).
9.1.2. Solution
Use stat to get those times and utime to set them. Both functions are built into Perl:
($READTIME, $WRITETIME) = (stat($filename))[8,9];
utime($NEWREADTIME, $NEWWRITETIME, $filename);
9.1.3. Discussion
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But I do not know how well this does on Windows.
Updated formatting error, to show the code correctly - thanks Perlbotics
Krambambuli
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Recipe 9.1. Getting and Setting Timestamps
9.1.1. Problem
You need to retrieve or alter when a file was last modified (written or changed) or accessed (read).
9.1.2. Solution
Use stat to get those times and utime to set them. Both functions are built into Perl:
($READTIME, $WRITETIME) = (stat($filename))[8,9];
utime($NEWREADTIME, $NEWWRITETIME, $filename);
9.1.3. Discussion
[...]
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But I do not know how well this does on Windows.
Updated formatting error, to show the code correctly - thanks Perlbotics
Krambambuli
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Re^2: Comparing modification times like make
by cdarke (Prior) on Oct 27, 2008 at 13:40 UTC |
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