Bash: <test -w file> = true for a read-only file !!!

Bash: <test -w file> = true for a read-only file !!!

[Laurent Ricci]

Hi B19 developers,

The test -w doesn't work on windows and unix files !!!

If I perform the following statement on a read-only file 
MyReadOnlyFile, the result is <Is writable> !!!

    if [-w MyReadOnlyFile ]
    then
        echo "Is writable"
    else
        echo "Is readonly"
    fi


My gnu-win32 beta release is:
uname -a : CYGWIN32_NT GLOBBY10 4.0 19.1 i686 unknown

Thanks for help or for patch...

bye

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Re: Bash: <test -w file> = true for a read-only file !!!

[Joseph Banta]

Laurent Ricci (lri@wag.ch) wrote:

> If I perform the following statement on a read-only file MyReadOnlyFile, the result is !!!
> if [-w MyReadOnlyFile ] 
>  then 
>  	echo "Is writable"
> else
>  	echo "Is readonly"
> fi

I have noticed this too, and that 'sh' and 'bash' will often return different results from
the same test.  I guess the answer is to get the best copy of sh / bash from one of the
primary hackers here and use it as both sh and bash.

Anyone have a better answer?

Joseph Banta

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