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Re: Does -e overrule -f in readlink?
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Does -e overrule -f in readlink? |
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Sun, 25 Sep 2016 13:48:03 +0100 |
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On 25/09/16 04:51, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi, It seems that -e overrules -f in readlink at least according to
> the following. If so, when -e is specified, specification of -f does
> not change the result of readlink. Is it the case?
>
> tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
> cd "$tmpdir"
> ln -s z.txt d.txt
> readlink -f d.txt
> readlink -f -e d.txt || echo "$?"
> readlink -e d.txt || echo "$?"'
The last specified mode of -e -f -m takes precedence.