C++: File Modification Time

Bjarne-stroustrup
 

This task will attempt to get and set the modification time of a file.

#include <boost/filesystem/operations.hpp>
#include <ctime>
#include <iostream>

int main( int argc , char *argv[ ] ) {
	if ( argc != 2 ) {
		std::cerr << "Error! Syntax: moditime <filename>!\n" ;
		return 1 ;
	}
	boost::filesystem::path p( argv[ 1 ] ) ;
	if ( boost::filesystem::exists( p ) ) {
		std::time_t t = boost::filesystem::last_write_time( p ) ;
		std::cout << "On " << std::ctime( &t ) << " the file " << argv[ 1 ] 
		<< " was modified the last time!\n" ;
		std::cout << "Setting the modification time to now:\n" ;
		std::time_t n = std::time( 0 ) ;
		boost::filesystem::last_write_time( p , n ) ; 
		t = boost::filesystem::last_write_time( p ) ;
		std::cout << "Now the modification time is " << std::ctime( &t ) << std::endl ;
		return 0 ;
	} else {
		std::cout << "Could not find file " << argv[ 1 ] << '\n' ;
		return 2 ;
	}
}

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