Your problems are 1) you close the file handle then try to test it. 2) You can't unlink an file that has an open filehandle on many systems. This should be self explanatory code. $file is the FILE NAME. We open this file onto the FILE HANDLE called BAD. We can then read from the file through the filehandle. 

$file = "bad.out";

open BAD, $file or die "Oops can't open $file Perl says $!\n"

# do stuff to BAD

close BAD;

if ( -s $file ) {
    # file has size
} else {
    # file has zero size
    unlink $file or die "Can't unlink $file: $!\n";
}

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tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: -z file test operator by tachyon
in thread -z file test operator by Anonymous Monk

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