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From: hugo@GRIGGS.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Peter Su)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Bug in test
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Date: 28 Jun 89 19:30:42 GMT
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The bash "test -w" builtin seems to be broken.  It returns false no
matter what I give it. 

For example

if test -w ~
then
  echo foo
else
  echo bar
fi

says "bar", which is wrong.



Pete