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Re: test for hard links always fail with pdksh
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:05:06 +0100
- Subject: Re: test for hard links always fail with pdksh
- References: <4B8618EE.2070807@columbus.rr.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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.
Corinna
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