Re: [Omaha.pm] strange file exists behavior

[Jay Hannah <jhannah@omnihotels.com>]

Title: Re: strange file exists behavior

I don’t think the file test operators do globbing. You can use glob() instead if you want.

if (! glob(“$target_path/$filename")) {
   next;
}

perldoc –f glob

HTH,

j



On 8/14/08 7:54 AM, "Sean Baker" wrote:

> Does anyone have any clue why my “-e” check is saying file does not exist and dropping me into the “next;” statement?  It doesn’t like asterisks?  It works fine when I use the entire file name.
>  
>  
> main::(usw_response_by_min.pl:47):         `scp lb1:$source_path/$filename $target_path`;
>   DB<3> n
> main::(usw_response_by_min.pl:48):         if (! -e "$target_path/$filename") {
>   DB<3> n
> main::(usw_response_by_min.pl:49):            next;
>   DB<3> p "$target_path/$filename"
> /datamining/usw_log/ban*trans-20080813*
>  
>  
> pbaker@omares-etl:/datamining/usw_log> ls /datamining/usw_log/ban*trans-20080813*
> /datamining/usw_log/banana_slicer.pl-trans-20080813.gz
>  
>