On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Abhishek Verma wrote:
I have been training UNIX for a few months, and have come across a bug
(I guess so) With test command.
The problem is, with -f option it reports a symbolic link as a regular
file. For ex: say there is a file "f1" of type symbolic link, then
If [ -f f1 ]; then
Echo reg file
Else
Echo Not reg file
Fi
The above code should give output as : "Not reg file"
But it happens to print "reg file".
This is not a bug - the manpage for test states:
"Except for -h and -L, all FILE-related tests dereference symbolic
links.
If the filename passed to test is a symlink, the target of the link is
tested as a file/directory/etc.
Cheers,
Phil
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