Re: symlink to "pack"

2019-09-07 Thread Uri Guttman
On 9/7/19 8:35 PM, Mike wrote: Maybe you should simplify to: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; symlink('ab', "foo") || die $!; If that doesn't work try it after changing 'symlink' to 'link' symlink and link are very different functions so changing it likely won't help. see my other

Re: symlink to "pack"

2019-09-07 Thread Mike
Maybe you should simplify to: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; symlink('ab', "foo") || die $!; If that doesn't work try it after changing 'symlink' to 'link' Printing your $target gives a space and this symbol: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2640/index.htm I am on

Re: symlink to "pack"

2019-09-07 Thread Uri Guttman
On 9/7/19 4:25 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: Sorry about the title, it's the best I can do... #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $num=12; my $target=pack('n', $num); symlink($target, "foo") || die $!; It dies with "No such file or directory" No symlink is created. What I want is a symlink

symlink to "pack"

2019-09-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
Sorry about the title, it's the best I can do... #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $num=12; my $target=pack('n', $num); symlink($target, "foo") || die $!; It dies with "No such file or directory" No symlink is created. What I want is a symlink named "foo" pointing to a 2-byte string.