Man Scilab

fileinfo Scilab Function

fileinfo - Provides information about a file

[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