On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, David Cantrell wrote:
> Today, I needed to stat() in a shell script. After solving my immediate
> problem with a perl one-liner, I went on to write a proper command-line
> tool to do the job.
>
> http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/tech/stat
There certainly used to be a stat(1) which got distributed with older
Linux distributions. It's one of those things that most annoyingly got
dropped. Why do they drop all the useful tools? (xcb, xcolors, stat, tree,
crypt, vi -x, more will come to mind)
S.
--
Shevek
I am the Borg.
sub AUTOLOAD{my$i=$AUTOLOAD;my$x=shift;$i=~s/^.*://;print"$x\n";eval
qq{*$AUTOLOAD=sub{my\$x=shift;return unless \$x%$i;&{$x}(\$x);};};}
foreach my $i (3..65535) { &{'2'}($i); }
