Scilab Function

fileinfo - Provides information about a file

### Calling Sequence

  `[x,ierr]=fileinfo(file)`

### Parameters

- `file` : a character string, the file pathname
- `x` : an integer vector of size 6 containing information or an empty matrix if file does not exist.
- `ierr` : error indicator, 0, if no error has occured

### Description

x=fileinfo(file) returns

- x(1) : The file size
- x(2) : The file mode
- x(3) : The user id
- x(4) : the group id
- x(5) : The device number
- x(6) : The date of last modification
- x(7) : The date of last change
- x(8) : The date of last access
- x(9) : The device type (if inode device)
- x(10) : The blocksize for filesystem I/O
- x(11) : The number of blocks allocated
- x(12) : The inode
- x(13) : The number of hard links

### REFERENCE

This function is an interface to the C function stat.

### Examples

    w=fileinfo(SCI+'/scilab.star')
    getdate(w(6))

### See Also

`getdate` `file` `dispfiles` `newest` `isdir`

### Author

S. Steer INRIA