filename does not exist but test gives true back
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Apr 21 11:33:00 GMT 2004
On Apr 21 12:38, cygwin.20.job@spamgourmet.com wrote:
> Hi folk, I have ported a bash-script from UNIX to cygwin and have the Problem that test says that the file exist but there is no file with the given Name.
>
> Here come some command to reproduce the problem.
>
>
> Wed Apr 21 12:36:00 556 ls -al; if [ -e "load_evu.ctl." ] ;then echo "load_evu.ctl." exists;fi;
> insgesamt 1
> drwxr-xr-x+ 2 F.Braunb Dom?nen- 0 21. Apr 12:28 .
> drwxr-xr--+ 12 F.Braunb ???????? 0 21. Apr 12:19 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 F.Braunb Dom?nen- 285 21. Apr 12:35 load_evu.ctl
> load_evu.ctl. exists
>
> When I go on in the script and working with a file which does not exist I run in trouble.
>
> Any idea how to fix it that test says the file exists?
Trailing dots are silently ignored by Windows.
Corinna
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