false-negative on file-existance

[Daniel Reichelt]

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Hi

I have a file named "a  b" which contains two spaces. Doing a

$ test -f a\ \ b && echo true
true

echoes true as expected. However doing a

$ test -f "a b" && echo true || echo $?
1

exits with code 1. Is this behaviour expected?
Thanks

Daniel Reichelt
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