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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:05:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:On Feb 25 01:30, Paul McFerrin wrote:$ man testA 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.
test -L tests for symbolic links, not for hardlinks.
So both the program and the documentation are wrong??? Who'd have thought it?
test expression [ expression ] -h file file is a symbolic link. -L file file is a symbolic link.
Cyrille Lefevre -- mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre-lists@laposte.net
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