On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:37:15 -0500
Harry Putnam wrote:
> #!/usr/local/src/test/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use Cwd 'abs_path';
>
> my $tdir = shift;
>
You can use `-e` to determine if the path exists and `-d` to determine
if it's a directory. See `perldoc -f -X` and search for
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:48:43 -0500
Brandon McCaig wrote:
> It would not be very pleasant if most things die() on error because
> errors are normal and usually we don't want robust programs to crash
> when something innocent fails, nor do we want to have to wrap every
> error that we can recover f
Harry:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> In the following code I hoped to use `use Cwd abs_path;' to not
> only produce the absolute path for a named directory but to die if it
> could not... thereby getting around having to test the named dir with
> -d ... to make sure it w
In the following code I hoped to use `use Cwd abs_path;' to not
only produce the absolute path for a named directory but to die if it
could not... thereby getting around having to test the named dir with
-d ... to make sure it was really a directory in the fs.
It does not have that effect when a
