Re: Find out last modtime of a file?

[Tim Connors]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Kai Grossjohann wrote:

> In addition to invoking Perl and the /usr/bin/stat (or /bin/stat?)
> program, which other ways can you think of to find the last modtime of
> a file?
...
> Solaris 2.6 does not appear to have the command.

Agreed: SunOS hera 5.7 Generic_106541-23 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

However, I do use stat.c attached (only tested on the above - I'm lazy too
;)
Any system worth it's beef would have a C compiler, no? cache the compiled
file somewhere in /tmp

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