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Old 10-26-2007
use perl to get file type ?
Can anybody please tell me how can I determine whether a file is SYMBOLIC LINK, using the stat() function ?

So far I have this:

my @attrs = stat($fileName);
my $mode = $attrs[2];

What next ?
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Old 10-26-2007
For symbolic links, you should use lstat() to test rather than stat().

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Fcntl ":mode"; 

my @files = ("/etc/rc5.d/S99rc.local", "users.ini");

foreach (@files) {
	my @attrs = lstat($_); 
	print (S_ISLNK($attrs[2])?"$_: Is a Link\n":"$_: Not a Link\n");
}

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