


File::stat(3p)   Perl Programmers Reference Guide  File::stat(3p)


NAME
       File::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.

BUGS
       As of Perl 5.8.0 after using this module you cannot use
       the implicit $_ or the special filehandle "_" with stat()
       or lstat(), trying to do so leads into strange errors.
       The workaround is for $_ to be explicit

           my $stat_obj = stat $_;

       and for "_" to explicitly populate the object using the
       unexported and undocumented populate() function with
       CORE::stat():

           my $stat_obj = File::stat::populate(CORE::stat(_));





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File::stat(3p)   Perl Programmers Reference Guide  File::stat(3p)


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


















































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