Potential 'test' bug

[Matthias Morche]

john_baker@ftdetrck-ccmail.army.mil wrote:
...
>      Observation of potential 'test' bug:
> 
>         The following fails if more than two files in /temp
>         (or any other directory name ):
> 
>         test -f /temp/*
...
"test -f" allows only one argument. It is meant to test the existence of
exactly one file. "test -f /temp/*" works if temp contains no file since
the replacement for pattern /temp/* is /temp/* and there is no file
named * within directory temp.
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