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From: dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: How to test for soft links ??
Message-ID: <898@ki.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 90 15:57:57 GMT
Organization: Ki Research, Inc. Derry NH
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On the IBM RS/6000, is there a way to test to see if a file is a soft link?
Under BSD, the "-h" option to test does this.  For sysV, the option is "-l".
I'm running AIX 3.1 and the man page for test doesn't show anything.  Is it
possible that they left this ability out??  I've got a few shell scripts that
need to know whether the file is a _real_ file or just a soft link.  I guess
I could write a little C program to figure out the file type and return 0
or 1, but I'd rather just use test if at all possible.
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