Re: How do you determine if a file is a symlink?

[Wiggins d'Anconia]

RICHARD FERNANDEZ wrote:
> According to the docs, if you stat a symlink, you will get information
> for the target file, and lstat works on symlinks...
> 
> I'm confused. How do you determine if a file is a symlink to begin with?
> 
> TIA
> 
> richf
> 

perldoc -f -l

if (-l $file) {
  # file is a symlink
}

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