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Hi all,

I know that when you use symlink in Perl, you are creating a symbolic link from one file to another. My question is, say you linked file A to file B, then you used file B as input for another program, whose output is also a file. Is the resulting file a symlink file, too? I've done this and the resultant file is giving me some problems.

Thanks in advance for any help!
Jun 18 '12 #1
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RonB
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say you linked file A to file B, then you used file B as input for another program, whose output is also a file. Is the resulting file a symlink file, too?
No, the file created by your program will not have any connection to the source file.
Jun 18 '12 #2

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