The current behaviour is according to the intended functionality of symlinks when they first appeared, i e to create first-rank local references across få boundaries. cf hard links.
Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 10 feb 2015 10:04 skrev "Jonathan Hankins" <jhank...@homewood.k12.al.us >: > $ touch foo > $ ln -s foo bar > $ [[ -f foo ]] && [[ ! -h foo ]] && echo "exists and is not a symlink" > exists and is not a symlink > $ [[ -f bar ]] && [[ ! -h bar ]] && echo "exists and is not a symlink" > $ > > -Jonathan Hankins > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Cheng Rk <crq...@ymail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Monday, February 9, 2015 3:13 PM, Andreas Schwab < >> sch...@linux-m68k.org> wrote: >> Cheng Rk <crq...@ymail.com> writes: >> >> >> Then the builtin test help need a documentation fix, right? >> >> You're addressing different lines but I am saying this line is >> inaccurate, right? >> >> >> -f FILE True if file exists and is a regular file. >> >> >> Is there really a simple regular file test existing? >> >> >> >> > test: test [expr] >> Evaluate conditional expression. >> >> Exits with a status of 0 (true) or 1 (false) depending on >> the evaluation of EXPR. Expressions may be unary or binary. Unary >> expressions are often used to examine the status of a file. There >> are string operators and numeric comparison operators as well. >> >> The behavior of test depends on the number of arguments. Read the >> bash manual page for the complete specification. >> >> > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jonathan Hankins Homewood City Schools > > The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, > has an elaborate logical underpinning. - Carl Sagan > > jhank...@homewood.k12.al.us > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >
