Re: false-negative on file-existance

[Daniel Reichelt]

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Nevermind it boiled down to a stupid bashism. Anyways, thanks!
Daniel

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Daniel Reichelt on 11/6/2009 2:12 PM:
>> Hi
>
>> I have a file named "a  b" which contains two spaces. Doing a
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>> $ test -f a\ \ b && echo true
>> true
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>> echoes true as expected. However doing a
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>> $ test -f "a b" && echo true || echo $?
>> 1
>> exits with code 1. Is this behaviour expected?
>
> Yes.  "a b" != "a  b".  Check your spacing.
>
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