fileinfo - Provides information about a file

Calling Sequence

[x,ierr]=fileinfo(file)

Parameters

• file : a character string, the file pathname
• x : an integer vector of size 6 containing information or an empty matrix if file does not exist.
• ierr : error indicator, 0, if no error has occured

Description

x=fileinfo(file) returns

x(1): The file size

x(2): The file mode

x(3): The user id

x(4): the group id

x(5): The device number

x(6): The date of last modification

x(7): The date of last change

x(8): The date of last access

x(9): The device type (if inode device)

x(10): The blocksize for filesystem I/O

x(11): The number of blocks allocated

x(12): The inode

x(13): The number of hard links

Reference

This function is an interface to the C function stat.

Examples

w=fileinfo(SCI+'/scilab.star')
getdate(w(6))
   
  

See Also

getdate ,   file ,   dispfiles ,   newest ,   isdir ,  

Author

S. Steer INRIA