Zackary Deems wrote: > echo "blah" >/tmp/blah > ln -s /tmp/blah /tmp/blah.link > if [[ -f "/tmp/blah.link" ]] > then > echo "/tmp/blah.link is a regular file" > else > echo "/tmp/blah.link is NOT a regular file" > fi
Thank you for the very nice and concise test case. > links now match for both links and regular files. This plays hell with > quite a bit of existing code. Can you clarify "now" in your statement? As far as I can determine ksh88, ksh93, zsh, bash-2.x and of course bash-3.x all follow the symlink for the -f test. So this seems to be the legacy behavior forever. Symbolic links are generally completely transparent to applications and I think that includes the -f operator. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
