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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
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Subject: Re: perl question about > in file name
Keywords: perl
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Date: 5 Jun 89 02:40:08 GMT
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In article <123@zip.eecs.umich.edu> don@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Don Winsor) writes:
}Does anyone know if there is any way to make "perl" read from a
}file whose name begins with a ">" character?  

How about the standard unix tricks for dealing with that sort of problem:
either reference the file as "./>myfile" or as "/usr/home/me/dir/>myfile"?

}    If the filename begins with <" or nothing, the file
}    is opened for input.  If the filename begins with
}    ">", the file is opened for output.  If the filename
}    begins with ">>", the file is opened for appending.

I would bet that this really means "the filename string", not the
filename-itself (if you were thinking of that string as being 
    "device" . "directorypath" . "filename"
even though the above decomposition is the actual reality for most operating
systems.)

  /Bernie\