Re: Folder modified time

Work on Windows too

>md dir

>perl -MFile::stat -le"print ''.localtime( stat('dir')->mtime )"
Fri Aug 28 10:14:50 2009

>copy nul dir\file
        1 file(s) copied.

>perl -MFile::stat -le"print ''.localtime( stat('dir')->mtime )"
Fri Aug 28 10:14:50 2009

>perl -MFile::stat -le"print ''.localtime( stat('dir')->mtime )"
Fri Aug 28 10:15:06 2009
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But it took a second to update.

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Re^2: Folder modified time by Crackers2 (Parson) on Aug 28, 2009 at 14:30 UTC
That test doesn't seem to match his description. That would be more like: `> md dir1 > md dir1\dir2 > copy nul dir1\dir2\file` [download] And he's expecting the mtime of dir1 to be updated after the copy.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Folder modified time by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 28, 2009 at 16:46 UTC
The system (NTFS + WinXP) doesn't appear to work that way. As you can see, the system says the parent directory (".") was last modified earlier than when the child directory ("dir2") was last modified: `>dir dir1 Volume in drive C is C Volume Serial Number is 28AB-0E8B Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\ikegami\dir1 2009/08/28 12:43 PM <DIR> . 2009/08/28 12:43 PM <DIR> .. 2009/08/28 12:44 PM <DIR> dir2` [download] Perl reports the same.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Folder modified time by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Aug 28, 2009 at 15:22 UTC
Ooh, much easier localtime by stringify, thanks for the technique, again	[reply]
Re^3: Folder modified time by Selvakumar (Scribe) on Aug 29, 2009 at 06:34 UTC
Hi All, Thanks for sharing the thoughts. Now i achieved this by using FIle::Find::Rule to collect all the folders and i checked the latest modified time of all folders. but it's not a direct way and i checked for any direct way to find this time to save the script process time.	[reply]