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lstat FILEHANDLE

lstat EXPR

lstat

Does the same thing as the stat() function, but stats a symbolic link instead of the file the symbolic link points to. If symbolic links are unimplemented on your system, a normal stat() is done.

If EXPR is omitted, stats $_.

Source: Perl builtin functions
Copyright: Larry Wall, et al.

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