Re: Bug in command "test"

[Andreas Schwab]

Abhishek Verma <address@hidden> writes:

> I have been training UNIX for a few months, and have come across a bug (I 
> guess so)
> With test command.

Note that you are more likely using the built-in command of the shell,
not the one provided by coreutils, though that would not make a
difference in this case.

> The problem is, with -f option it reports a symbolic link as a regular file.

>From the coreutils documentation:

`-h FILE'
`-L FILE'
     True if FILE exists and is a symbolic link.  Unlike all other
     file-related tests, this test does not dereference FILE if it is a
     symbolic link.

Andreas.

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