fileinfo

fileinfo — Provides information about a file

Calling sequence

[x,ierr]=fileinfo(file)

`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

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

This function is an interface to the C function stat.



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

S. Steer INRIA