I thought about using lstat to get the size of a file for file
comparisons.  I see that lstat always returns a list of thirteen values.
 The references I find appear to require assignment of those 13 values
to variables, even though I only want to use one.

Do I really have to put

($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,
     $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks)
           = lstat($filename);

Just to get the $size variable populated with the file size?

My ultimate goal is to check the size of huge files copied to a folder.
 Once I get the $size to come back the same three times in a row,
indicating the file is all there, then I can move on with playing with
the file.

Thanks,
Michael


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