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$ pwd
/home/jwoehr
$ mkdir foo
$ ln -s foo foo_soft
$ echo > foo/a_file
$ ls -al foo
total 52
drwxr-xr-x 2 jwoehr 0 8192 Apr 27 13:01 .
drwx------ 16 jwoehr 0 36864 Apr 27 13:00 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 jwoehr 0 1 Apr 27 13:01 a_file
$ ls -al foo_soft
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jwoehr 0 6 Apr 27 13:00 /home/jwoehr/foo_soft -> foo
$ ls -al foo_soft/a_file
-rw-r--r-- 1 jwoehr 0 1 Apr 27 13:01 /home/jwoehr/foo_soft/a_file
$ test -f foo/a_file; echo $?
0
$ test -f foo_soft/a_file; echo $?
0
$ test -L foo_soft/a_file; echo $?
1
$ test -L foo_soft; echo $?
0
# ###
# 0 is "truth/success# to the shell
# A shells script equivalent of test is:
# if [ -f foo/a_file ]
# then
# ...
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:51 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can't think of one which doesn't involve recursion of the directory.
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