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From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How to test for soft links ??
Keywords: Yes in ksh...
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Date: 4 Dec 90 15:33:30 GMT
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In article <4442@awdprime.UUCP>, ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan) writes:
Ron> Interesting, I looked in the BSD 4.3 (URM) manual under TEST(1)
Ron> and it makes no mention of the -h manual; are you sure that it's
Ron> not part of your shell somehow? If it is not documented in the
Ron> manual, chances are the AIX programmers didn't know about it...
Ron> In any case, I'll try it out on a Sun at home...  If you are
Ron> using ksh for your shell script, "test -L filename" returns
Ron> existence and symbolic link...

OK checked it out and "-h" is indeed in SunOS 4.0... A value-addded
enhancement to BSD 4.3 by Sun or had it been folded into BSD? I guess
that means, does BSD 4.3 on Vaxes have it?

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