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noah on 07/03/07


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age of file?

Published in: Perl 

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  1. $age_of_file = -A $file ;
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  3. $last_modified_date = -M $file ;
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  5. $inode_last_modified = -C $file ;    #Corresponds to the Macintosh "Created Date." [probably obsolete now]
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  7. $file_exists = -e $file ;
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  9. $local_time = $^T ;

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