Bug in command test

2008-09-18 Thread Abhishek Verma
Hi, I have been training UNIX for a few months, and have come across a bug (I guess so) With test command. The problem is, with -f option it reports a symbolic link as a regular file. For ex: say there is a file f1 of type symbolic link, then If [ -f f1 ]; then

Re: Bug in command test

2008-09-18 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Abhishek Verma wrote: I have been training UNIX for a few months, and have come across a bug (I guess so) With test command. The problem is, with -f option it reports a symbolic link as a regular file. For ex: say there is a file f1 of type symbolic link, then

Re: Bug in command test

2008-09-18 Thread Andreas Schwab
Abhishek Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been training UNIX for a few months, and have come across a bug (I guess so) With test command. Note that you are more likely using the built-in command of the shell, not the one provided by coreutils, though that would not make a difference in

Re: final batch of tiny string fixes [patches]

2008-09-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Attached the last of the series of tiny fixes for string problems Ping? Benno ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils