On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:45:52PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> for cmd in test /bin/test /usr/bin/test /usr/ucb/bin/test /usr/ucb/test
Minor quibble: This should probably try the built-in "test"
last; an external binary is preferable (though slower), since it
will work the same regardless of
On 14 Mar 2002, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would you contribute the text itself? TIA!
Yes, I'd be happy to help.
I can't promise that the solution outlined below works everywhere, but
it has been tested on a number of unix-like platforms and seems to be
OK. I suppose at least m
On 14 Mar 2002, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would you contribute the text itself? TIA!
OK, when I work out something that works on all our machines I'll send
you a note. I can't promise it will work everywhere.
--
Martin
Would you contribute the text itself? TIA!
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 't
In the "Limitations of Usual Tools" page you might like to add a note
that the -h and -L options to "test" specified by the current POSIX
and SUS specifications and implemented in GNU are not portable. In
fact, on Solaris 8 they fail in a rather bizarre and confusing way:
$ ln -s /nowhere bad
$
