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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