Martin Pool writes: > I am not sure what a good portable way to test for symlinks from the > shell would be.
In libtool we've used
if (test -h $file) >/dev/null 2>&1 || (test -L $file) >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
echo "$file is a symlink"
fi
(Actually, it's part of a larger scheme to replace 'test -e', but this
part covers the symlink case.)
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