Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | My copy of 'unix in a nutshell' tells me that 'test -a' is
> | specific to ksh, so this is going to break on systems where "sh
> | means sh, not bash".
>
> So I can use "-e" instead?
Not if you want plain old 'sh' to understand you.
Both these seem to work:
# your_symbolic_link exists and is a regular file
test -f your_symbolic_link && ...
# your symbolic_link exists and is readable
test -r your_symbolic_link && ...
I guess the '-r' version has the semantics you're looking for.
> | So, my guess is that you have builddir != srcdir and the creation
> | of the symbolic link has failed.
>>
> | Incidentally, why use both $(<F) and `basename $<`. They;re
> | equivalent, aren't they?
>
> Could be that I learned abougt $(<F) after I had written the line
> below...
Sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. I've only just learned about $(<F)
myself, having pulled 'unix in a nutshell' in an attempt to
understand your code.
--
Angus
