On Thu, 22 May 2014 14:37:01 -0700
Charles DeRykus <dery...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Manfred Lotz <manfred.l...@arcor.de>
> 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 plain file";
> > }
> > Is there a simpler way to do this?
> >
>
> 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...
> }
>
Yes, you are right. I have to admit that I don't use _ very often but
this is a good place.
The strangest thing is that -f works differently to -type f in the find
command. I wasn't aware of it and this caused my script to behave
wrongly.
--
Manfred
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