Hi. Excuse me if I've got things somewhat confused here (I'm a complete Unix newbie), but I've found what I think is a bug.
If I create a file using: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch testFile and then run the following two lines, I get conflicting results: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [ -a testFile ] && echo true || echo false true [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [ ! -a testFile ] && echo true || echo false true Like I said, I'm only a Unix newbie, so I'm really unsure whether this is a problem, or whether it's expected behaviour, but in my searching for information, I found: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/ and point E1 ("Why is the bash builtin `test' slightly different from /bin/test?") seems to indicate that the two results should be the "opposite" of each other. By the way, here's some information created by running bashbug on my machine: Machine: i486 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../bash -I../bash/include -I../bash/lib -g -O2 uname output: Linux machine 2.6.12-10-686 #1 Thu Dec 22 11:55:07 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Machine Type: i486-pc-linux-gnu Bash Version: 3.0 Patch Level: 16 Release Status: release Anyway, I'd really appreciate any comment from anyone who can shed light on this... Thank you, Dave _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
