Re: The or thing.

[Mandrake]

in reply to The or thing.

One small modification:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

if (eval join (" or ", map {$_=" -e '".$_ ."'"}@ARGV)) {
    print "Hooray at least one of the the files exists";
} else {
    print "Hohum neither of the files exist";
}

This will accept any number of files (instead of two). Provide the file names as command line arguments.
Thanks..

[Anonymous Monk]

eval-ing @ARGV is dangrous, perldoc perlsec

[Fletch]

Why bother with eval?

if( grep -e $_, @ARGV ) {
  print "At least one file exists\n";
} else {
  print "None exist\n";
}