in reply to Re^2: Comandline arguements when perl code is getting executed from command line
in thread Comandline arguements when perl code is getting executed from command line

Not really. -n tries to open the value of $type as a file.

By the way, won't you have a problem if $file_name or $type contains shell metacharacters?

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