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Re: -s switch in perl

by philipbailey (Curate)
on Jul 29, 2009 at 17:03 UTC ( [id://784294]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to -s switch in perl

It is also worth mentioning that using -s in the manner shown is equivalent to:

if (-e /tmp/xyz && !-z /tmp/xyz) {}

i.e. it checks both that the file exists and has non-zero size, which can be useful.

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Re^2: -s switch in perl
by graff (Chancellor) on Jul 30, 2009 at 05:22 UTC
    I think you meant to say: 
    if ( -e "/tmp/xyz" && ! -z _ ) {}

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    (quotes around file name, and use of "_" to re-use the most recent stat results, rather than using stat twice in a row on the same file).
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