[Classiccity-pm] Sometimes it's the simple things that give me trouble..

[Jim Gifford]

readlink()

jim

PS, the way I usually find these types of things is to do 'man perlfunc',
and do a search for part of what I'm wanting to know about (like 'link'
for example).  Usually I find something pertinent.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:06:15PM -0500, Darrell Golliher wrote:
> 
>   I need to know what actual file a symlink references.  Surely there
>   is a perl way to figure that out, but I haven't found it yet.  Help?
> 
>   So far I've got thing better than $lsoutput = `ls -l` and parsing
>   lsoutput.  I know that can't be the best way. :)
> 
> -darrell
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