From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 3 03:51:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA24499 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 May 1997 03:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA24494 for ; Sat, 3 May 1997 03:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-129 [207.14.72.129]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA03393 for ; Sat, 3 May 1997 01:48:08 -0800 Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 02:41:57 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: freebsd-questions Subject: test -f $shvar Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk anyone notice how "test -f $shvar" always results in "true"? why bother doing tests as in xinitrc like that to test for files? whether the file exists or not, the test is always true? i don't really understand why this is! is it a bug? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x -------------------------------------------------------------------------