in reply to Re^4: MIME::Lite and attachments
in thread MIME::Lite and attachments

That returns nothing because you're not quoting your -e script... so your -e script consists of an empty print statement, and the filename is an argument to that script. Try 
perl -e 'print -r "/usr/home/account/files/test.gif"'

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That should print a '1' just before the next shell prompt.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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