need TCL file CREATION time

[PGTurner]

Any way in TCL to get file creation time - as opposed to accessed time or modified time?

Familiar with mtime & atime - but apparently no "ctime".

Don't need to change it just need to retrieve it.

DIR /TC filename.ext is valid in DOS and I am playing with parsing out of an exec call but that seems hinky.

Is there a better way?

 

[jeans]

ctime is actually a change time - makes it useless for you. That is unless Windows implementation has changed the meaning of the ctime from *nix platforms - and this makes me a moron ;-).
Note that I'm not at all familiar with TCL - just a common filesystem knowledge.

Jean Spector
QA Team Leader @ Kashya Ltd.

http://www.kashya.com

 

[PGTurner]

Thanks for the reply -

I should have specified WINDOWS world

I added the "ctime" as a possible TCL option switch name - in TCL atime=Last access, mtime=Last modified. But nothing for when the file was created, which is what I am looking for.

In Windows - current - 2000/2003 server or 2000/XP
/T Controls which time field displayed or used for sorting
timefield C Creation
A Last Access
W Last Written
ie "dir /TC Filename provides the create time.

What I have done is shell out - run the dir command then parse the output but that is fairly slow and I was hoping someone might have a better - more TCLish way.


proc FileCreateTime {FileName} {
set tc \x02FTC
set DirList [split [exec cmd.exe /c dir $tc $FileName] \n]
set FileCrTime [clock scan [string range [lindex $DirList 5] 0 20]]
return $FileCrTime
}

 

[Bong]

I don't think you can get it in Tcl.

_________________
Bob Rashkin

 

[prex1]

Use
[tt]file stat name varName[/tt]
and
[tt]$varName(ctime)[/tt]

prex1

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