File Manipulation
Let’s explore other ways of manipulating files besides reading and writing.
Besides reading and writing files, we can also manipulate them as we would directly from a command line or a file manager.
File test operators
The file test operators, collectively called the -X
operators, examine file and directory attributes. To test that a file exists, try this:
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main.pl
some_file
my $filename = 'some_file';#...say 'Present!' if -e $filename;
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The
-e
operator has a single operand, either the name of a file ...
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