Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > what about [ `dirname "$1"` -ef `dirname "$2"` ] ? > > "test -e FOO" is a bash extension. > Also, "dirname" does nothing more than strip everything after the final '/' > character. "/foo/bar/../baz.cpp" and "/foo/baz.cpp" will appear to be in > different directories.
Correct for dirname, but -ef as well as cd+pwd will use the true directory. Also I found '-ef' documented in the man page for ksh (SunOS 5.8) and BSD test, so I think it should be available on most platforms. Cheers /Andreas
