Marko A. Jennings wrote: > 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 > I'm backwards. Doh! thank you -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: talberts.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 337 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080331/26824f42/attachment-0005.vcf>