Thanks guys. After regaining confidence in my distro
I found my syntax error.
Tom
--- Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 13, 2004, at 5:19 PM, Tom McDonough wrote:
>
> > I've been getting no results from File::stat or a
> > system call to stat. Finally I called stat from
> the
> > command line and got "Command not found". Indeed,
> it
> > is neither in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin and I could
> not
> > find a website to download it.
> > I'm running OS X 3.5
> > Has anyone else had this problem?
> > Any idea where I can get stat?
>
> 'stat' isn't a command you type in the shell, it's a
> C function call.
> Try "man stat" and you should see the manual page,
> in section 2.
>
> As for File::stat, it seems to be working fine for
> me (also on Panther):
>
> % perl -MFile::stat -le 'print for @{stat
> "/etc/passwd"}'
> 234881033
> 8782
> 33188
> 1
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 1374
> 1100754023
> 1063399301
> 1065492838
> 4096
> 8
>
>
>
> -Ken
>
>
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