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litte understanding problem with test


From: Alexander Kahl
Subject: litte understanding problem with test
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 02:08:55 +0200

Hi,

I built automake and ran the testsuite and one test failed (instsh2.test).
So I tracked down the error to the execution of 'test ! -w file'. I thought it 
would check that I don't have write permission to this file.
I tried:

echo foo>file
chmod 444 file
test ! -w file && echo "no write permission"

no output was given back. As I read the man page it tells me that it also 
checks for the existence of the file.
Maybe that's why no output is given back? This confuses me.

Best regards,
Alex
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