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solaris10 stat command not found but works in perl

I was reading a page about the performance of delete operation on thousands of files and it mentions the command below

perl -e 'for(<*>){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}'

Could anyone explain me why I have a 'command not found' while calling command 'stat' from the command-line while it's working through perl?

Solution

  • The stat perl function is different from the stat program.

    Likely you may be running this from an environment that doesn't have a stat program installed (Windows).