according to Programming Perl (p. 98)...
-w = file is writable by effective uid/gid
-s = file has nonzero size (returns size)
-w only tells if the file's permissions allow it to be written to, has
nothing to do with whether or not it already has data.
save the return value of -s and check that v
I don't think the -x tests mean what you think they mean.
>From "perldoc -f -x":
-r File is readable by effective uid/gid.
-w File is writable by effective uid/gid.
-x File is executable by effective uid/gid.
-o File is owned by effective uid.
-R File is
Dave Adams wrote:
> *My Code:*
>
> my $logfile = "logfile_with_content";
> if (-w $logfile) {
> print ("True - file exists but empty");
> }
> if (-s $logfile) {
> print ("True - file exist and has content");
> }
>
> *My Output:*
>
> True - file exists but empty True - file exist and has
