Re: directory or file?

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Use the filetest operators which are described in perldoc perlfunc. -f FH or -f "filename" returns true for a normal file. -d "filename" returns true for a directory. There are many others that return various pieces of information about the specified file.

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Re: Re: directory or file? by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 16, 2003 at 13:39 UTC
`perldoc -f -X` will bring up the specific entry from perlfunc on the test operators. See also `perldoc -f stat`, or `perldoc File::stat` for the OOPy in the audience.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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