Re: file test bug in bash 3.1

[Bob Proulx]

Zackary Deems wrote:
> echo "blah" >/tmp/blah
> ln -s /tmp/blah /tmp/blah.link
> if [[ -f "/tmp/blah.link" ]]
> then
>    echo "/tmp/blah.link is a regular file"
> else
>    echo "/tmp/blah.link is NOT a regular file"
> fi

Thank you for the very nice and concise test case.

> links now match for both links and regular files.  This plays hell with 
> quite a bit of existing code.

Can you clarify "now" in your statement?  As far as I can determine
ksh88, ksh93, zsh, bash-2.x and of course bash-3.x all follow the
symlink for the -f test.  So this seems to be the legacy behavior
forever.  Symbolic links are generally completely transparent to
applications and I think that includes the -f operator.

Bob