You can do it with the -M file test operator which returns result in floating point decimal days.

$dir = "c:/windows";
$age = -M $dir;

print "Dir $dir was last modified $age days ago\n";

# make a new dir just for fun
$dir = "c:/foo";
mkdir $dir;
$age = -M $dir;
print "Dir $dir was last modified $age days ago\n";
rmdir $dir; # delete this test dir
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With a dir the concept of modification is a little nebulous - it is actually the days since it was created.

cheers

tachyon

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Is the modification time for a directory dependent on the Windows version? WinNT SP6a, at least, updates the modification time when the directory permissions change, a file is added, updated or deleted.

Have fun,
Carl Forde

You have these options:

    -d  True if file is a directory

    -M  Age of file in days when script started.

    -A  Same for access time.

    -C  Same for inode change time.
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I tested this on a Win 95 box cause thats what is in front of me here. As Win 95/98 has little concept of permissons it will quite probably be different to NT which is basically a totally different OS. A little quick testing will show you what is happening, like the example above. You can add some dirs/files, change the permissions, add some sleeps and compare results of -M -A -C in a few lines to get the results you want.

cheers

tachyon

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my ($full_dir, @stat);
$full_dir="c:\\projectstuff";
(@stat)=stat("$full_dir");
print scalar(localtime($stat[10]));
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