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file test bug in bash 3.1

From: Zackary Deems
Subject: file test bug in bash 3.1
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 23:17:12 -0400
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echo "blah" >/tmp/blah
ln -s /tmp/blah /tmp/blah.link
if [[ -f "/tmp/blah.link" ]]
then
   echo "/tmp/blah.link is a regular file"
else
   echo "/tmp/blah.link is NOT a regular file"
fi
links now match for both links and regular files. This plays hell with quite a bit of existing code.
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