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Perl Programming/Keywords/lstat
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The lstat keyword
lstat is a function that does the same as the stat function (including setting the special _ filehandle) but stats a symbolic link instead of the file the symbolic link points to. If there are no symbolic links on the system, a normal stat is done instead.
Without EXPRESSION, $_ is stat.
Syntax
lstat EXPRESSION
lstat DIRHANDLE
lstat
See also
stat
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