How can I get last modified timestamp in Lua
I am trying to work on Lua file handling. So, I am able to open, read, write, close the files. local session_debug = io.open("/root/session_debug.txt", "a") session_debug:write("Some text\n") session_debug:close() How can I know the last modified date timestamp of this file. There's no built-in function in standard Lua that does this. One way to get it without third-party libraries is to take use of io.popen . For example, on Linux, you could use stat : local f = io.popen("stat -c %Y testfile") local last_modified = f:read() Now last_modified is the timestamp of the last modified time of