Re: Large Files and glob/stat

You are trying to use the thing returned by stat as an object, but perldoc -f stat says it is merely a list containg the filesize on index seven. Try my $s = (stat($farm))[7]. Or, better yet, check the return value of stat first...
Or try the -s operator (man perlfunc).

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Re^2: Large Files and glob/stat by FireyIce01 (Novice) on Jan 18, 2005 at 08:57 UTC
Well, with files under 2 gig it gives me accurate bytecount... if you notice, I use `use File::stat;` which allows me to referecne by name and `printf "%s\nAge[%s] size[%d]\n", $farm, ParseDateString("epoch".$s->mtime()), $s->size();` is referenceing that element of the list by name... the problem only seems to occur on a file that's larger than 2 gigs... scratch that changed `printf "%s\nAge[%s] size[%d]\n", $farm, ParseDateString("epoch".$s->mtime()), $s->size();` to say `printf "%s\nAge[%s] size[%s]\n", $farm, ParseDateString("epoch".$s->mtime()), $s->size();` and it started working... printf was looking for an integer for the filesize... and when the number it was getting was too big it just turned it into a -1... all fixed, I just turned it into a string since I'm not actually doing any math functions on it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Large Files and glob/stat by chb (Deacon) on Jan 18, 2005 at 09:16 UTC
oops, should read the code more careful...	[reply]