How do I determine file creation or last-access date?

rupesh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: ⭐ (files)

Is there a way to find out when a file was created/last accessed, just like one would get to see while doing a ls-l or dir in DOS?

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Re: File Date⭐ by The Mad Hatter (Priest) on Jul 23, 2003 at 16:05 UTC
See `perldoc -f stat` and `perldoc -f -X`.	[reply]
Re: File Date by draconis (Scribe) on Jul 23, 2003 at 20:34 UTC
Perl's `stat()` is a great function for extracting file specific info!	[reply]
Re: How do I determine file creation or last-access date? by amitbhosale (Acolyte) on Feb 13, 2008 at 10:20 UTC
The `ctime()` function provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of the original `CORE::localtime()` function. `use Time::localtime; use File::stat; for ( @ARGV ) { print "\nFile: $_"; print "\n Last access time: ", ctime( stat($_)->atime ); print "\n Last modify time: ", ctime( stat($_)->mtime ); print "\n File creation time: ", ctime( stat($_)->ctime ); }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]