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Re: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x)


From: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Subject: Re: coreutils: Test manpage improvements (-e, -w and -x)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:01:37 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:54:50PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    $ touch test
>    $ ln -s test testl
>    $ test -e testl && echo true
>    true
>    $ rm test
>    rm: remove regular empty file `test'? y
>    $ test -e testl && echo true
> 
> You are probobly still using the test builtin from bash.  Both `test'
> and `[' are builtins in bash by default.

You're right, using /usr/bin/test gives the same result nevertheless.

Regards

Javier




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