From: nick.brealey@aeat.co.uk (Nicholas J Brealey) Subject: Re: Problem with test -r 20 Oct 1997 10:37:25 -0700 Message-ID: <199710201633.RAA08778.cygnus.gnu-win32@sdssuna.culham.aeat.co.uk> References: <199710180806.SAA29556@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Fergus Henderson Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".