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Re: How to test if a link exists
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Dave Gibson |
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Re: How to test if a link exists |
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Sun, 23 Jun 2013 15:18:16 +0100 |
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Mark Young <marky1124@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I stumbled into discovering that the -e test for a file does not
> report the file as existing if the file is a dead symbolic link.
It's documented in the bash manpage under "CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS".
Unless otherwise specified, primaries that operate on files follow sym-
bolic links and operate on the target of the link, rather than the link
itself.
> What test should I use to decide if a file exists (including dead
> symbolic links)?
-h and -L apply to the symlink rather than the target, so
test -e broken_link -o -h broken_link