Workshop
Quiz
| 1: | To print the last modification time of the file foofile, use
print (stat("foofile"))[9]; print scalar localtime (stat("foofile"))[9];
| | 2: | The unlink function returns
The number of files actually deleted True or false, depending on success The number of file deletions that were attempted
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Answers| A1:
| b or c. Choice b prints the time expressed as the number of seconds since 1970—not very useful. Choice c prints the time as a nicely formatted string. | | A2:
| a. However, choice b is also somewhat true. If no files can be deleted, unlink returns 0, which is false. |
Activities
As a programming exercise only, try to write a program that lists all the files in a directory, in its subdirectories, and so on.
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