Subject: Re: Problem with test -r
From: [email-masked] (Nicholas J Brealey)

20 Oct 1997 10:37:25 -0700
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To: Fergus Henderson <[email-masked]>
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I seem to have deleted the crucial line in my original report.

The problems is that test -r does not return true when a file exists
and is is readable:

bash$ echo hello > xxxx
bash$ chmod og-rwx xxxx
bash$ if test -r xxxx ; then echo OK ;fi
bash$ cat xxxx
hello
bash$ ls -l xxxx
-rw-------   1 1010     everyone        7 Oct 20 16:31 xxxx
bash$

On Solaris I get:

bash$ echo hello > xxxx
bash$ chmod og-rwx xxxx
bash$  if test -r xxxx ; then echo OK ;fi
OK
bash$ cat xxxx
hello
bash$ ls -l xxxx
-rw-------   1 nick   users           6 Oct 20 17:28 xxxx
bash$ 

Sorry for any confusion caused !

Nick
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