So, I'm hoping that perl has an easy way to do this. Essentially I need to see if a file exists on a remote server. here's the context - I'm throwing an email at our servers, assuming the email makes it all the way through this will trigger a post which is caught and logged into a file on a remote server I have access to. Within the context of my script I need to 1) check to see if the file I'm looking for exists on that remote server and delete it if it does, 2) send the email (got that part covered), 3) check to make sure it's come back into existence. The real part I'm getting stuck on is determining if that file exists or not. Anyone have any thoughts for checking for the existence of a file on a remote server?

turns out using backticks and cating the file works out alright. my code looks like: 
  @lines = `ssh REMOTE_SERVER cat /tmp/somefile.log`;
  my $flag;
  $flag = 1 if scalar @lines > 1;

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In reply to check for a remote file by Furple

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