Try using stat

Why? You seem to presume that stat and -M are not intimitely related? In fact -X just calls stat and caches the unused result fragments in the _ magical var - yes it is called _ so you can do this:

$exist = -e $blah; # calls stat, returns -e , caches result
$dir   = -d _;     # takes the last stat (ie $blah) returns -d value
$file  = -f _;     # etc
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The problem is a path issue, the solution is:

my $fileAge = -M $fileName || die "Can't stat $fileName $!\n"
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The error will be No such file or directory Solution full path. Yes you can make relative work but that is an exercise for the reader.

cheers

tachyon

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In fact -X just calls stat and caches the unused result fragments in the _ magical var - yes it is called _ so you can do this:

Just to clarify, caching the results isn't peculiar to the filetest operators; stat() itself caches the results too.

-sauoq
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