How do I determine file creation or last-access date?

[rupesh]

Is there a way to find out when a file was created/last accessed, just like one would get to see while doing a ls-l or dir in DOS?

Originally posted as a Categorized Question.

[The Mad Hatter]

See perldoc -f stat and perldoc -f -X.

[draconis]

Perl's stat() is a great function for extracting file specific info!

[amitbhosale]

The ctime() function provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of the original CORE::localtime() function.

use Time::localtime;
use File::stat;

for ( @ARGV )
{
    print "\nFile: $_";
    print "\n Last access   time: ", ctime( stat($_)->atime );
    print "\n Last modify   time: ", ctime( stat($_)->mtime );
    print "\n File creation time: ", ctime( stat($_)->ctime );
}