Re: [MacPerl] -s File Test Operator

[kpreid@ibm.net (Kevin Reid)]

> In article <mac-perl.35b69f57.3212343@mailhost.tornado.be>,
> bart.mediamind@tornado.be (Bart Lateur) wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Jeff at MacTech wrote:
> >
> >>On the other hand, if -s is supposed to return the size of a file, it
> >>doesn't do that.
> 
> This is a little after-the-fact, but I wonder if the parser would choke on
> a two-letter command, for instance -ss for total file size?

The second s would probably be treated as a substitution. How about -a
(for 'all' of the file) instead?

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