Bug in test

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1 total messages Started by Peter Su Wed, 28 Jun 1989 19:30

#170

Author: Peter Su
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1989 19:30

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The bash "test -w" builtin seems to be broken.  It returns false no
matter what I give it. 

For example

if test -w ~
then
  echo foo
else
  echo bar
fi

says "bar", which is wrong.



Pete

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