On Thu, 22 May 2014 16:51:24 -0500
Andy Bach wrote:
...
Very interesting experiments.
> $ perl -e '$fname = "st"; print "yes\n" if ( -f $fname and not -l
> _ )'
> The stat preceding -l _ wasn't an lstat at -e line 1.
This tells me that
if ( -f $fname and not -l _ )'
should perhap
On Thu, 22 May 2014 14:37:01 -0700
Charles DeRykus wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Manfred Lotz
> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > I want to check if a file is a plain file but not a symlink.
> >
> > It seems because -f returns true for a symlink that I have to do
> > this: my $fname = 'somefi
On 05/22/2014 05:51 PM, Andy Bach wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Charles DeRykus wrote:
I was just fiddliing w/ that too and, creating a sym link behaves different
than a hard link but:
as you should know those are very different animals
$ ln nohup.out st
$ perl -e '$fname = "st
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Charles DeRykus wrote:
> Potentially shorter and arguably simpler if you use the special
> underscore argument to access file info for previous test, eg,
>
>if ( -f $fname and not -l _ ) {
>say...
>}
>
I was just fiddliing w/ that too and, cre
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> Hi there,
> I want to check if a file is a plain file but not a symlink.
>
> It seems because -f returns true for a symlink that I have to do this:
> my $fname = 'somefile';
>
> if ( -f $fname and not -l $fname ) {
> say "$fname is a
Hi there,
I want to check if a file is a plain file but not a symlink.
It seems because -f returns true for a symlink that I have to do this:
my $fname = 'somefile';
if ( -f $fname and not -l $fname ) {
say "$fname is a plain file";
}
Is there a simpler way to do this?
--
Manfred
