stat
Returns file metadata as a 13-element list.
Returns a 13-element list giving the status info for a file. The
elements are: dev, ino, mode, nlink, uid, gid, rdev, size, atime,
mtime, ctime, blksize, blocks. Follows symbolic links (use lstat
to stat the link itself). Returns an empty list on failure.
When Time::HiRes::stat has been imported into the caller’s
namespace, the atime/mtime/ctime fields are returned as
floating-point seconds with nanosecond precision.
Synopsis
my @s = stat($file);
my ($dev, $ino, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size,
$atime, $mtime, $ctime, $blksize, $blocks) = stat($file);
stat $fh; # stat on a filehandle
stat _; # reuse last stat buffer