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Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ? |
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Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:59:50 +0100 |
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Cheng Rk <crquan@ymail.com> writes:
> According this documentation `help test`, I am expecting it should return
> false on anything other than a regular file,
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> -f FILE True if file exists and is a regular file.
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> but why it returned true on a symlink to a regular file?
(bash) Bash Conditional Expressions::
Unless otherwise specified, primaries that operate on files follow
symbolic links and operate on the target of the link, rather than the
link itself.
Andreas.
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- Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?, Cheng Rk, 2015/02/09
- Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?, Chet Ramey, 2015/02/09
- Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?, Ken Irving, 2015/02/09
- Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?, Evan Gates, 2015/02/09
- Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?, Eric Blake, 2015/02/09
- Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?, Bob Proulx, 2015/02/09
- Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?,
Andreas Schwab <=
Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?, Greg Wooledge, 2015/02/09
Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?, Geir Hauge, 2015/02/09