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There is a $ missing in 

if (-s "myAbsPathToFile") {

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Re^4: -s test option returns differently in some cases
by frogsausage (Sexton) on Oct 14, 2013 at 09:13 UTC

    You won't believe it but...

    print "# Command file is located at: $cmd_path\n" if (-e $cmd_path);

# system("ls -l $cmd_path");

if (-s $cmd_path) {# $cmd_path) {
  print "Good to go";
} else {
  print "Failed: $!";
}

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    gives "Failed: No such file or directory"

    print "# Command file is located at: $cmd_path\n" if (-e $cmd_path);

system("ls -l $cmd_path");

if (-s $cmd_path) {# $cmd_path) {
  print "Good to go";
} else {
  print "Failed: $!";
}

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    gives "Good to go"

    Same file, same code, same everything except that extra statement in between. An empty system(""); call does the same (works). Ideas?!

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Re^4: -s test option returns differently in some cases
by frogsausage (Sexton) on Oct 14, 2013 at 08:53 UTC
    Indeed! I corrected typo after edit. I converted full path to variable again hence why.
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