Hello All,

I am trying to write a script that would parse thru a windows directory supplied and return the object type encountered (File, Directory, Link, etc), size, atime, ctime, and mtime.

I located some code on the internet that kinda works, but when it gets to a windows link/shortcut (.lnk), the script fails with:

Use of uninitialized value in bitwise and (&) at C:\temp\showmodes.pl line 5.

Can't stat() 'C:\Users\admin\Favorites\MSN Websites\MSN Autos'

Any thoughts on how to parse thru all object type and it return the appropriate information?

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $name = shift or die "Usage: $0 file|directory\n";
my $mode = ( ( lstat($name) )[2] ) & 07777 or die "Can't stat() '$name
+'\n";
printf "%s %04o %s\n",
( -f _ ) ? 'f'
: ( -l _ ) ? 'l'
: ( -d _ ) ? 'd'
: ( -b _ ) ? 'b'
: ( -c _ ) ? 'c'
: ( -p _ ) ? 'p'
: ( -S _ ) ? 's'
: '?',
$mode,
$name;
1;

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In reply to parsing the Windows directories by g_speran

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