Cheng Rk <crq...@ymail.com> writes: > 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?
(bash) Bash Conditional Expressions:: Unless otherwise specified, primaries that operate on files follow symbolic links and operate on the target of the link, rather than the link itself. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
