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Ruby Programming/Reference/Objects/IO/File/File::Stat
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File::Stat
A File::Stat object is one that contains a file's status information.
Example:
stat = File.stat('/etc') # a File::Stat object
if stat.directory?
puts '/etc is a directory last modified at ' + stat.mtime.to_s
end
You can also get a stat object for open file descriptors.
a = File.open('some file')
a.stat # File::Stat object