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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Finding Files with Perl on a Hidden Dir? Post 302976451 by Corona688 on Wednesday 29th of June 2016 11:59:12 AM
Old 06-29-2016
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Originally Posted by LinQ
Queerly, this will not work on hidden (.somedir) dirs!
That sounds fishy to me as nothing about UNIX except ls cares about hidden files and folders.

You know what? It doesn't work on non-hidden dirs either. It always fails, because ~/ which is a shell feature not a perl one.

Use an absolute path, or substitute HOME a la $ENV{"HOME"}."/folder/file" and -e works fine.
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Test::Dir(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    Test::Dir(3pm)

NAME
Test::Dir - test directory attributes SYNOPSIS
use Test::More ...; use Test::Dir; DESCRIPTION
This modules provides a collection of test utilities for directory attributes. Use it in combination with Test::More in your test programs. FUNCTIONS
dir_exists_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory exists, and not ok otherwise. dir_not_exists_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory does not exist, and not ok otherwise. dir_empty_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is empty (contains no files or subdirectories), and not ok otherwise. dir_not_empty_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is not empty, and not ok otherwise. dir_readable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is readable, and not ok otherwise. dir_not_readable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is not readable, and not ok otherwise. dir_writable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is writable, and not ok otherwise. dir_not_writable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is not writable, and not ok otherwise. dir_executable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is executable, and not ok otherwise. dir_not_executable_ok(DIRNAME [, TESTNAME] ) Ok if the directory is not executable, and not ok otherwise. TO DO
I know there are a lot more directory attributes that can be tested. If you need them, please ask (or better yet, contribute code!). AUTHOR
Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn, "mthurn at cpan.org", <http://tinyurl.com/nn67z>. BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-test-dir at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Dir>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Test::Dir You can also look for information at: o RT: CPAN's request tracker <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Test-Dir> o AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation <http://annocpan.org/dist/Test-Dir> o CPAN Ratings <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Test-Dir> o Search CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Dir> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Martin 'Kingpin' Thurn This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2011-03-05 Test::Dir(3pm)
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