On 02/09/2015 02:00 PM, Cheng Rk wrote: > > > To bug-bash@gnu.org: > > > According this documentation `help test`, I am expecting it should return > false on anything other than a regular file, > > -f FILE True if file exists and is a regular file. > > > but why it returned true on a symlink to a regular file?
Read the rest of the docs:
Unless otherwise specified, primaries that operate on files
follow sym‐
bolic links and operate on the target of the link, rather than
the link
itself.
>
> $ [ -f tmp/sym-link ] && echo true
> true
which means tmp/sym-link resolved to a regular file. You need test -h
to determine if you have a symlink.
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