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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:25:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Webster Wood <treii28 AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Symbolic links and file tests in perl
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I tried doing a if(-l $file) where $file was the name of a symbolically linked directory in the current working directory and it returned a false.  Doing a (-d $file) returned true.
Is there any way to work around this and then retrieve the real path of a symbolically linked directory under cygwin?

SW




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