On Jun 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>is there a flag that will test to see if a file is a symlink? i am only
>finding tests for directory, perms and such.
Yes, it's the -l test.
if (-l $foo) {
# symbolic link
print "$foo points to ", readlink($foo), "\n";
}
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