Re: How to know if a symlink exists

[John W. Krahn]

Jorge Goncalvez wrote:
> 
> Hi, I wanted to do this:
> ln -s X Y but unless it don't already exists?
> How can I do this in Perl?

unless ( -l 'Y' ) {
    symlink 'X', 'Y' or warn "Cannot create symbolic link to 'X': $!";
    }



John
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