[plug] Perl Monks help required

Patrick Tehvand patrick at carey.wa.edu.au
Thu Sep 4 14:22:17 WST 2003


doesnt matter, perl wasnt compiled with large file support


On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 14:10, Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> # less filetest.pl:
> 
> print "Doesn't exist\n" unless -e $opt_d; 
> print "Exists\n" if -e $opt_d; 
> print "File\n" if -f $opt_d;
> print system("ls -alh $opt_d");
> 
> 
> # perl filetest.pl -d data.20030820 
> Doesn't exist 
> 
> # ls result:
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2.2G Aug 21 16:34 data.20030820
> 
>  perl filetest.pl -d data.20030819.gz 
> Exists 
> File
> ls result.
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         105M Aug 21 13:17 data.20030819.gz
> 
> does perl have some size limit for if "-e"
> 
> cheers
-- 
Patrick Tehvand
IT Department,
Carey Baptist College
http://www.carey.wa.edu.au

Member - Society of Linux Professionals (WA) 

support running 2.4.20-8 kernel on Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike).
14:21:56 up 5 days, 21:46, 5 users, load average: 0.58, 0.45, 0.37
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