What is File.ctime in Ruby?
Overview
The ctime() method of a File instance in Ruby is used to return the change time for a particular file. Note that this time is when the file’s directory was changed, not the file itself.
Syntax
File.ctime(file_name)
Parameters
file_name is the name of the file.
Return value
The value returned is the directory change time for the file.
Code example
main.rb
test.rb
test.txt
# get filefn1 = "test.txt"fn2 = "test.rb"# get change timeputs File.ctime(fn1)puts File.ctime(fn2)
Explanation
- Files
test.rbandtest.txtwere created. We also have themain.rbfile containing our application code. - Line 2 and 3: we got the file names.
- Line 6 and 7: the change times of the files were obtained, and the values were printed to the console.
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