Re: Comparing timestamp of 2 files

[Rob Dixon]

Amit Sharma wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need your help to compare the file timestamp of 2 different files.
> Please suggest how can I do this in perl.

Use 'stat' to fetch the create, modify, or inode change time of the
files. Then compare them as numbers:

  my ($file1, $file2);

  my ($atime1, $mtime1, $ctime1) = (stat $file1)[8..10];
  my ($atime2, $mtime2, $ctime2) = (stat $file2)[8..10];

  my $mdiff = $mtime2 - $mtime1;


HTH,

Rob




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