Hello Fratres, I got following phenomenon:
$ ls -ltr
-rw-------   1 pelagic  dba      4294967296 Mar 16 13:50 foo
-rw-------   1 pelagic  dba         4096 Mar 16 13:52 bar

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a big and a small file.
I then execute the following:
use strict;
my @files = qw/foo bar/;
foreach my $file (@files) {
        if (-e "$file") {
                print $file, " found\n";
        }
        else {
                print $file, " not found\n";
        }
}

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and get the printout:
foo not found
bar found

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The File Test Operators seems to "overview" my biggie ...
any suggestions why this could be happening?
(This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris)
pelagic

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In reply to File Test Operator '-e' with large files by pelagic

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