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Old 02-03-2012
What is this perl snippet is doing?
Code:
perl -e '@stat=stat("/etc/passwd");$now_string=localtime($stat[9]);print $ARGV[0].":$now_string\n"' ./file_name

Please if anyone can describe it.

Thanks in advance
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Old 02-03-2012
Hi ezee,

It prints the name of the input file plus a colon and modification time of file /etc/passwd in a readable mode, like:
Code:
./file_name:Mon Dec 12 11:19:15 2011

Regards,
Birei
 
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