filetest

filetest

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
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NAME

filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators

SYNOPSIS

$can_perhaps_read = -r "file";	# use the mode bits
{
    use filetest 'access';		# intuit harder
    $can_really_read = -r "file";
}
$can_perhaps_read = -r "file";	# use the mode bits again

DESCRIPTION

This pragma tells the compiler to change the behaviour of the filetest permission operators, -r -w -x<