On Mon, March 31, 2008 4:37 pm, Tim Alberts wrote:
Why does 'test -f' and 'test -e' return true on a (hidden) file that doesn't exist?
*> cat /home/talberts/.forward* cat: /home/talberts/.forward: No such file or directory *> test -f /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* 1 *> test -e /home/talberts/.forward ;echo $?* 1
0 = exists 1 = does not exist