Hello Monks, I want to test if a file with name tpsm exists, and my folder might contain many file such as 

tpsm_01
tpsm_12
tpsm_23
.
.
. and so on

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the above code didnt work as i didnt have exact file name , on the shell we can directly use file* to check for multiple files with the same name ( some part of the name) but how fdo i check here?

basically i want to test if a file with name tpsm _x exists or not, i don't know what will be the value of x , but i just want to know if files having such names are there or not. i tried with 

$pwd = $ENV{'PWD'};
$file = "$pwd/tpsm*";
if (-e $file)
{
#do something
}

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please let me know how can i achieve this

i am using glob and its working fine , thanks @Corion and @steveib

In reply to UPDATE :: finding a file exist amongst many files by t-rex

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