-a broken, -e correct

[Ross Vandegrift]

It looks like [ -a foo ] and [ ! -a foo ] both return true when foo is a
file that exists.  -e doesn't exhibit this behavior, and -a behaves
correctly when the files doesn't exist:

ross@hex5:~/tmp$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ rm -rf foo
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ if [ -a foo ]; then echo 1; fi
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ if [ ! -a foo ]; then echo 1; fi
1
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ touch foo
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ if [ -a foo ]; then echo 1; fi
1
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ if [ ! -a foo ]; then echo 1; fi
1
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ rm -rf foo
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ if [ -e foo ]; then echo 1; fi
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ if [ ! -e foo ]; then echo 1; fi
1
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ touch foo
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ if [ -e foo ]; then echo 1; fi
1
ross@hex5:~/tmp$ if [ ! -e foo ]; then echo 1; fi
ross@hex5:~/tmp$

Ross
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