On 10/03/2013 03:36 PM, vic...@vsespb.ru wrote: > пятница, 4 октября 2013 г., 1:27:28 UTC+4 пользователь Greg Wooledge написал: >> I assume you mean that bash will return 1 (failure) for [[ -e /path/to/file >> ]] > > yes > >> How else would you expect bash to handle this? > > Point was that it's probably poorly documented: "-e True if file exists." ( > http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html ). > > It's not immediately clear that false is returned if file exists but > permission denied error happens.
For all intents and purposes, if you don't have permission to stat a file, then it may as well not exist. Treating permission denied as not existing is perfectly logical. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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