TIMTOWTDI, Robin. Stat:
0 dev device number of filesystem 1 ino inode number 2 mode file mode (type and permissions) 3 nlink number of (hard) links to the file 4 uid numeric user ID of file's owner 5 gid numeric group ID of file's owner 6 rdev the device identifier (special files only) 7 size total size of file, in bytes 8 atime last access time in seconds since the epoch 9 mtime last modify time in seconds since the epoch 10 ctime inode change time in seconds since the epoch (*) 11 blksize preferred block size for file system I/O 12 blocks actual number of blocks allocated 8 being atime, 9 being mtime and 10 ctime. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Array my$FIRSTTIME = Variable Oh well. let me just use it in script #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use POSIX qw(setsid); # set costants my$MAKEPORT="/home/bin/make-port"; # daemonize the program &daemonize; while(1) { # set costants [EMAIL PROTECTED]("/home/std/std-unix-misc.tar.gz") ; my$FIRSTTIME = "$FILETIME[9]"; my$SECTIME=scalar time; sleep(2); if (($FIRSTTIME + 2) > $SECTIME) { system($MAKEPORT); }} sub daemonize { my $outlog = '/home/bin/daemons/logs/hotfolder_out.log'; my $errorlog = '/home/bin/daemons/logs/hotfolder_error.log'; chdir '/' or die "Can't chdir to /: $!"; umask 0; open STDIN, '/dev/null' or die "Can't read /dev/null: $!"; open STDOUT, ">$outlog" or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!"; open STDERR, ">$errorlog" or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!"; defined(my $pid = fork) or die "Can't fork: $!"; exit if $pid; setsid or die "Can't start a new session: $!"; } -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robin Norwood Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 7:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: SPENCERS Subject: Re: Stat() - Getting one element "SPENCERS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]("filename") ; > my$FIRSTTIME = "$FILETIME[8,9,10]"; > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 6:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Stat() - Getting one element > > > What's an easy way to grab just one element out of a function that > returns a list. > > For instance if I was to stat a file and all I wanted was the $atime or > if I just wanted the three timestamps atime mtime and ctime. Thanks. my $atime = (stat("filename"))[8]; The outer parens force list context, which you can then take the 9th element of. (atime) You can also do - my @times = (stat("filename"))[8 .. 10]; And, just for fun: my $times = { }; # empty hashref @{$times}{qw/atime mtime ctime/} = # a slice of the hashref... (stat("filename"))[8 .. 10]; # to which we map some of the fields of stat() print $times->{mtime}; # should yield the same as (stat("filename"))[9] Don't worry if the last snippet of code doesn't make any sense to you - it doesn't make any sense to me either. :-) -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]