Re: file test operation on files greater than 2gigs

[Corion]

Besides recompiling Perl, the only way is to call the OS tools, which hopefully know how to deal with file sizes larger than 32 bit:

my $output= `ls -l "$filename"`
# Parse the output of ls

[Anonymous Monk]

Probably better to use the output of stat(1). Trying to parse ls(1) is well known to be a bad idea.

my $size = `stat -f %z yourfile.txt`;

[Anonymous Monk]

...except that the GNU version uses -c %s for the format string argument. Ah well. Portability woes everywhere.