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Tom McDonough - 13 Dec 2004 23:19 GMT

I've been getting no results from File::stat or a
system call to stat. Finally I called stat from the
command line and got "Command not found". Indeed, it
is neither in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin and I could not
find a website to download it.
I'm running OS X 3.5
Has anyone else had this problem?
Any idea where I can get stat?

Tom McDonough

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Trey Harris - 14 Dec 2004 00:49 GMT

File::stat does not invoke the external command stat. It uses CORE::stat,
which is implemented by library call. Don't know why you're having
trouble (I have no trouble with either call), but the lack of
/usr/bin/stat isn't the culprit.

Trey

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Ken Williams - 14 Dec 2004 03:33 GMT

> I've been getting no results from File::stat or a
> system call to stat. Finally I called stat from the
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> Has anyone else had this problem?
> Any idea where I can get stat?

'stat' isn't a command you type in the shell, it's a C function call.
Try "man stat" and you should see the manual page, in section 2.

As for File::stat, it seems to be working fine for me (also on Panther):

% perl -MFile::stat -le 'print for @{stat "/etc/passwd"}'
234881033
8782
33188
1
0
0
0
1374
1100754023
1063399301
1065492838
4096
8

-Ken

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Tom McDonough - 14 Dec 2004 14:12 GMT

Thanks guys. After regaining confidence in my distro
I found my syntax error.
Tom

> > I've been getting no results from File::stat or a
> > system call to stat. Finally I called stat from
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>
> -Ken

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