File::stat

See the current Perl documentation for File::stat.

Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:

File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions

 use File::stat;
 $st = stat($file) or die "No $file: $!";
 if ( ($st->mode & 0111) && $st->nlink > 1) ) {
     print "$file is executable with lotsa links\n";
 }



    

This module's default exports override the core 
stat() and 
lstat() functions, replacing them with versions that return ``File::stat'' objects. This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field name from the 
stat(2) function; namely, dev, ino, mode, nlink, uid, gid, rdev, size, atime, mtime, ctime, blksize, and blocks.
  


You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using the 
:FIELDS import tag. (Note that this still overrides your 
stat() and 
lstat() functions.) Access these fields as variables named with a preceding
 st_ in front their method names. Thus, $stat_obj->dev() corresponds to $st_dev if you import the fields.


To access this functionality without the core overrides, pass the use an empty import list, and then access function functions with their full
qualified names. On the other hand, the built-ins are still available via
the CORE:: pseudo-package.



NOTE

While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct module to
build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.



AUTHOR

Tom Christiansen