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On Okt 21 2019, Marco Ippolito wrote:

> In the GNU Bash 5.0 man page from 7 December 2018 the -e test is
> documented as such:
>
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 -e file
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=
=C2=A0 True if file exists.
>
> When "file" is a symlink name to a non-existing target, the -e test fai=
ls,
> and this may be surprising from just reading the documentation.

It also says:

       Unless otherwise specified, primaries that operate on files follow=
 sym-
       bolic links and operate on the target of the link, rather than the=
 link
       itself.

Andreas.

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