--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to have a script check when a file was created. I've looked > at the file test operators (-C) but it looks like those wont help me > because they return file ages since the script started running, I need > something more like a timestamp. Any ideas? > > Thank you in advance for any help you can offer > > brian
You can't. I suppose there may be operating systems that track this, but this information typically is *not* available for files. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Depending upon what you need to do, you could perhaps check when the file was last altered or accessed. my ($last_read,$last_written) = (stat($filename))[8,9]; Cheers, Ovid ===== "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ Web Programming with Perl: http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Silence Is Evil: http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/philosophy/decency.txt __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
