Subject: Re: use of [ -e ${file} ]
To: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
From: Georg Schwarz <geos@epost.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/22/2004 18:09:01
> Did you perhaps mean "test -r $file"? That works for files, directories,
> links, and devices.
would also be an alternative worth considering. I think it really depends on
what you actually want to test for. For the occurrences in pkgsrc mentioned
-f would probably do.
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