Re: file test operation on files greater than 2gigs

Besides recompiling Perl, the only way is to call the OS tools, which hopefully know how to deal with file sizes larger than 32 bit:

my $output= `ls -l "$filename"`
# Parse the output of ls
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Re^2: file test operation on files greater than 2gigs by Anonymous Monk on Aug 01, 2013 at 11:50 UTC
Probably better to use the output of `stat(1)`. Trying to parse `ls(1)` is well known to be a bad idea. my $size = `stat -f %z yourfile.txt`; [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: file test operation on files greater than 2gigs by Anonymous Monk on Aug 01, 2013 at 12:47 UTC
...except that the GNU version uses `-c %s` for the format string argument. Ah well. Portability woes everywhere.	[reply] [d/l]