in reply to beginner question about stat fucntion

That assigns the "last modify time in seconds since the epoch" of $path to $time (given that your time meant $time).*

see stat for details.

* Thanks ww.

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Re^2: beginner question about stat fucntion
by ww (Archbishop) on May 23, 2009 at 15:10 UTC
    Well, it would mean that if time were $time.
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