On 25/09/16 04:51, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, It seems that -e overrules -f in readlink at least according to > the following. If so, when -e is specified, specification of -f does > not change the result of readlink. Is it the case? > > tmpdir=$(mktemp -d) > cd "$tmpdir" > ln -s z.txt d.txt > readlink -f d.txt > readlink -f -e d.txt || echo "$?" > readlink -e d.txt || echo "$?"'
The last specified mode of -e -f -m takes precedence.