You can also use 'do shell' using Ruby to get the date and time a file was
last accessed.
Didn't I say that? :) I gave a Perl example, but noted that Python,
Ruby, and Tcl would also work.
The Ruby is a little pithier since it doesn't require the -Mmodule
stuff - in Perl, you could use (stat(file))[8] instead of
stat(file)->atime, and thereby lose the -MFile::stat, but the result
is less legible.
What?
Yes, I used the word "legible" while talking about Perl. Stop snickering!
Philistines.
Other options (where /filename/ means /" & quoted form of POSIX path
to fileObj & "/):
do shell script "python -c \"import os; print
os.stat(filename).st_atime\""
do shell script "echo \"puts [file atime filename]\" | tclsh"
If you have clisp or guile or some other scripting language handy they
probably support something similar.
If you have a port of the GNU coreutils package installed (e.g. via
fink or MacPorts), you can just use the stat command:
