File::stat(3) Perl Programmers Reference Guide File::stat(3)NAMEFile::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat()
functions
SYNOPSIS
use File::stat;
$st = stat($file) or die "No $file: $!";
if ( ($st->mode & 0111) && $st->nlink > 1) ) {
print "$file is executable with lotsa links\n";
}
use File::stat qw(:FIELDS);
stat($file) or die "No $file: $!";
if ( ($st_mode & 0111) && $st_nlink > 1) ) {
print "$file is executable with lotsa links\n";
}
DESCRIPTION
This module's default exports override the core stat() and
lstat() functions, replacing them with versions that
return "File::stat" objects. This object has methods that
return the similarly named structure field name from the
stat(2) function; namely, dev, ino, mode, nlink, uid, gid,
rdev, size, atime, mtime, ctime, blksize, and blocks.
You may also import all the structure fields directly into
your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS
import tag. (Note that this still overrides your stat()
and lstat() functions.) Access these fields as variables
named with a preceding st_ in front their method names.
Thus, $stat_obj->dev() corresponds to $st_dev if you
import the fields.
To access this functionality without the core overrides,
pass the use an empty import list, and then access
function functions with their full qualified names. On
the other hand, the built-ins are still available via the
CORE:: pseudo-package.
NOTE
While this class is currently implemented using the
Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you
shouldn't rely upon this.
AUTHOR
Tom Christiansen
16/Sep/1999 perl 5.005, patch 03 1
File::stat(3) Perl Programmers Reference Guide File::stat(3)16/Sep/1999 perl 5.005, patch 03 2
