I'm using bourne for this... but escaping the single quotes like this: $FileTime = `ssh $ServerName \'perl -e \'(stat($FP_RemoteFile))[9];''`; or $FileTime = `ssh $ServerName \'perl -e \'(stat($FP_RemoteFile))[9];\'\'`; gives me the same syntax errors. (sh: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected) It looks as though the shell is actually complaining and, therefore, I guess I should assume that the perl one-liner format (quoting) is incorrect? In this, Ikegami, you may be on the right track. I'd love to put this in a script on the remote machine and run it from our watch server but then I'd need tiny scripts on every server that needs to be watched. This would make things a bit too complex to maintain. Is there no way to stat a remote file using ssh from within a perl script and capture the output?

In reply to Re^2: Comparing localtime to a remote file's modification time. by baerlun
in thread Comparing localtime to a remote file's modification time. by baerlun

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