HowtoMatrix

It’s not often that I write about Perl Scripting on Unix Tutorial, but that’s just because I don’t script in Perl this much on a regular basis. Today, however, I’d like to share one of the building blocks – a really basic piece of functionality which you’ll find really useful in almost any Perl script.

How to check if a file exists in Perl

First of all, we need to create one file for our experiments:

ubuntu$ touch /tmp/file.try

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