format_c@server:~/perl_scripts> cat stat.pl use strict; use warnings; my $file = 'test 1.txt'; print join "\n", stat $file; print "\n"; format_c@server:~/perl_scripts> perl stat.pl 773 104845 33188 1 500 100 0 5 1081702930 1081702930 1081702930 4096 8 format_c@server:~/perl_scripts>