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Re: stat weirdness?

by ysth (Canon)
on Feb 25, 2004 at 16:55 UTC ( [id://331717]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to stat weirdness?

To work on the symlink instead of following it, do an lstat instead of stat. To use the tests, do an lstat and then e.g. -d _

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Re: Re: stat weirdness?
by z3d (Scribe) on Feb 26, 2004 at 11:59 UTC
    They should make it easy to find this stuff, like perldoc -f or something (that is a knock against me, btw). Thanks ysth,
    -mike



    "I have never written bad code. There are merely unanticipated features."

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