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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Finding Files with Perl on a Hidden Dir? Post 302976455 by Aia on Wednesday 29th of June 2016 12:09:17 PM
Old 06-29-2016
There is no problems for Perl using the hidden directories and files, the issue is with ~. It does not translate to home like in the shell.
Please, try:
Code:
while ( -e "$ENV{'HOME'}/.somedir/testFile" )
{
    $| = 1; # to flush the print without the newline
    print " file detected ";
    sleep 1;
}

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