I'll start of with the code, then ask the question.... 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
my $dir = ".";  # relative path within chroot

opendir(DIR, $dir) or die "can't open $dir for read: $!\n";
my @file =  readdir DIR;
closedir(DIR) or die "error closing $dir: $!\n";

foreach my $file (@file)
{
  my $fsize = (-s $file); # get the file size
  my $isdir = (-d $file); # get the file size

  if ($fsize > 1 || $isdir =~ 1)
  {
    print ":$file:$fsize:$isdir:\n";
    ...do more junk....
  }
  else
  {
    print ":$file:$fsize:$isdir:\n";
    ...do more junk....
  }
}

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now I would expect this to return the filename followed by the file size and a value of 1 if it is a directory. which works great on 5.8.0 Active State... However when I run the same code on AIX running 5.005_3 I get "strange" results. the filename, size, and directory indicator are returned for '.' and '..' but every file or directory after that a size and directory indicator are not returned? I check 'perldoc -f -s' on the AIX box and it appears that the file test operators should work the same on 5.005_3 as they do on my windows box....??? can anybody shed some light on this for me?

In reply to file size test on 5.005_3? by djbiv

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