Scott Webster Wood wrote:
> 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.
I can't reproduce this:
$ mkdir foo; ln -s foo bar
$ perl -e 'print "yes\n" if (-l "bar");'
yes
Please provide a testcase that demonstrates the problem.
> Is there any way to work around this and then retrieve the real path of a
> symbolically linked directory under cygwin?
$ perl -e 'print readlink("bar")'
foo
Brian
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