Jerry Preston wrote:
> 
> Hi!

Hello,

> I am trying to determine if a is linked or not.  I am using the following:

If you have a file and you want to determine if another file is linked
to it then you will have to search through all files on your system to
find it/them.  If you find a symbolic link using -l you can determine
what it links to with the readlink() function.


>         if( -f "$fp/$program" ) {
>   print "2 programs $program*\n";
                              ^
File globs don't work in strings.

>           $programs{ program }{ $program } = "$fp/$program";
>         }
> 
> and
> 
>         if( -l "$fp/$program" ) {
>   print "2 programs $program*\n";
>           $programs{ program }{ $program } = "$fp/$program";
>         }
> 
> I get the same result for two files!  One is linked and the other is not.

Could you please rephrase your problem more clearly.  I don't understand
what you are trying to do here.


John
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