#!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my $filename = 'test.txt'; my @array = stat($filename); print Dumper \@array; my $epoch_timestamp = (stat($filename))[9]; print "Epoch seconds: " . $epoch_timestamp . "\n"; __DATA__ $VAR1 = [ 64513, 7741435, 33188, 1, 283683, 6856, 0, 0, 1434023984, 1434023978, 1434023983, 4096, 0 ]; Epoch seconds: 1434023978