> This does not demonstrate that test(1) is broken.
I should have left off the '(1)'.
Apparently different systems support different options. I suppose the
best portable test for symlinks will be
if test -L "$f" || test -h "$f" || /bin/test -L "$f" || /bin/test -h "$f"
then
echo is a
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 08:11, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> Fixed, in Solaris 8, but broken in
> at least 2.6 and possibly 7.
Not fixed in Solaris 8:
$ ps -fp $$
UID PID PPID CSTIME TTY TIME CMD
mgerdts 7104 12228 0 11:34:30 pts/10:00 /bin/sh
$
Mike Gerdts wrote:
> $ what /bin/sh
> /bin/sh:
> SunOS 5.8 Generic 109324-04 October 20
Aha! Fixed in /bin/test, and in at least ksh
but not fixed in sh, which seems to use a
builtin!
Try if /bin/test -L foo ; then echo "foo is a symlink" ;f
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:40:53AM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote:
> This does not demonstrate that test(1) is broken. First of all, pretty
> much every shell these days has test as a builtin, and as such you
> should be accusing sh(1), ksh(1), or similar.
I know, I should have dropped the ``(1)'' fro
Martin Pool wrote:
> is that Sun's test(1) is breathtakingly broken when passed
> a dangling symlink:
>
> $ ln -s /nowhere bad
> $ ls -l bad
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 josb user8 Mar 13 20:10 bad -> /nowhere
> $ if test -L bad; then echo bad; fi
> test: argument expected
> $ if test -h bad
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 01:37, Martin Pool wrote:
> People might find this entertaining and/or useful:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf-2.52/html_chapter/autoconf_10.html
>
> With the help of Jos Backus I just discovered the answer to
>
> http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync-cvs/2002-
People might find this entertaining and/or useful:
http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf-2.52/html_chapter/autoconf_10.html
With the help of Jos Backus I just discovered the answer to
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync-cvs/2002-January/001271.html
is that Sun's test(1) is breathtakingly b
