in reply to Perl Stat Issue

readdir has a paragraph made just for that situation. See also Re: Permission & size are not visible, where I quote it.

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Re^2: Perl Stat Issue
by omegaweaponZ (Beadle) on Jun 26, 2013 at 14:36 UTC
    again, comes back blank when using full directory, not just filename. even if I do something as simplistic as: 
    use File::stat;

my $testfile = "/to/my/directory/test.file";
my $st = stat($testfile) or die "No $testfile: $!";

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    $st is completely blank...
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