in reply to File Test -A problem on SunOS 5.9 & perl 5.8.3

add a system("ls -u /the/file") to your code directly after the -A and see what the OS thinks the last accessed time was.

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Re: Re: File Test -A problem on SunOS 5.9 & perl 5.8.3
by zakzebrowski (Curate) on May 25, 2004 at 14:02 UTC
    This doesn't work. Ideas? Output:
    bash-2.05$ls -u /tmp/file.dat
file.dat
bash-2.05$ls -u /tmp/somedir
bash-2.05$

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      Sorry, that should be ls -lu
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        it works for files, but for dirs I get:
        bash-2.04$ls -lu dirname
total 0
bash-2.04$

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