On Feb 25 01:30, Paul McFerrin wrote: > A new wrinkle with hard links. If you are testing for them in > pdksh, they will always fail. I.E.: > > if test -L links/$filename.$inumb > then : > else > ln $filename $filename.$inumb > fi > > The above test will always fail and thus will always attempt to > re-create the hard link.
$ man test test -L tests for symbolic links, not for hardlinks. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple