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Re: ./check-guile: test: argument expected
From: |
Gary Houston |
Subject: |
Re: ./check-guile: test: argument expected |
Date: |
25 Mar 2001 13:16:23 -0000 |
> From: Alexander Klimov <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:50:33 +0200 (IST)
>
> Hi.
>
> According to `man test' on Solaris 2.6 there is no `-e' primitive for sh,
> but only for ksh. It also exists in bash.
>
> There is an error in check-guile:36
>
> if [ ! -e guile-procedures.txt ]; then
> ^^^
> which produces the error message shown in subject. The line should be
> substituted with
> if [ ! -f guile-procedures.txt ]; then
Thanks. I don't think -f is right, since it's testing a symbolic link.
I don't know if test -L is portable. Maybe test -r would be best.