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Re: test for hard links always fail with pdksh



Christopher Faylor a Ãcrit :
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:05:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 25 01:30, Paul McFerrin wrote:
A new wrinkle with hard links.  If you are testing for them in
pdksh, they will always fail.  I.E.:

   if test -L links/$filename.$inumb
   then :
   else
      ln $filename $filename.$inumb
   fi

The above test will always fail and thus will always attempt to
re-create the hard link.
$ man test

test -L tests for symbolic links, not for hardlinks.

So both the program and the documentation are wrong??? Who'd have thought it?

!!!


man ksh

       test expression
       [ expression ]
               -h file              file is a symbolic link.
               -L file              file is a symbolic link.

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
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