this will probably be considered a non-bug (because the same behavior exists in bash, ksh, pdksh, irix, and gnu coreutils!) but i'ld at least like to hear an explanation if possible.
-e file exists test fails if file is a dangling symlink, this to me does not seem like the correct behavior, the test should not follow the symlink (lstat'ed instead of stat'ed). if anything there should be a note in the man page at least. bash-2.05b-38 coreutils-5.2.1-7 rm a b ln -s a b if [ -e b ]; then echo yes; fi # bash built-in if [ -e b ]; then echo yes; fi # pdksh built-in if [ test -e b ]; then echo yes; fi # bash built-in /usr/bin/test -e b ; echo $? # coreutils thanx for your time.... fish _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
