find date and time information for a folder

[tswitz00]

How can I use perl to find the creation date of a file or folder?

 

[PaulTEG]

google for perlfunc and stat

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[tswitz00]

use File::stat;
use Time::localtime;
$date_string = ctime(stat($file)->ctime);

 

[keak]

Alternatively, if you are on unix/linux

$ls_command =`ls -ld your_directory`;
($date, $time) = (split(/\s+/, $ls_command)) [5,6]
print "$date, $time";