On Okt 21 2019, Marco Ippolito wrote:
> In the GNU Bash 5.0 man page from 7 December 2018 the -e test is
> documented as such:
>
> -e file
> True if file exists.
>
> When "file" is a symlink name to a non-existing target, the -e test fails,
> and this may be surprising from just reading the documentation.
It also says:
Unless otherwise specified, primaries that operate on files follow sym-
bolic links and operate on the target of the link, rather than the link
itself.
Andreas.
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