Re: Does [ -f FILE ] have a bug on testing a symlink ?

[Evan Gates]

from bash(1):

Unless otherwise specified, primaries that operate on files follow
symbolic links and operate on the target of the link, rather than the
link itself.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Cheng Rk <crquan@ymail.com> wrote:
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> To bug-bash@gnu.org:
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> According this documentation `help test`, I am expecting it should return 
> false on anything other than a regular file,
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> -f FILE        True if file exists and is a regular file.
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> but why it returned true on a symlink to a regular file?
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> $ [ -f tmp/sym-link ] && echo true
> true
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