sanity check ...

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1 total messages Started by 'da Kingfish Wed, 25 Jun 1986 16:49

#188

Author: 'da Kingfish
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1986 16:49

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is this just me, or what??

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	% cat /tmp/test.sh
	#!/bin/sh
	if [ '!' -f $1 ]
	then	echo "Hmmmmm. can't open $1"
	else
		echo "Great.  can open $1"
	fi
	exit 0
	% /tmp/test.sh /etc/passwd
	Great.  can open /etc/passwd
	% /tmp/test.sh /dev/null
	Hmmmmm. can't open /dev/null
	% cp /dev/null xxx
	% ls -l xxx
	-rwx------  1 paul            0 Jun 25 12:11 xxx
	% ls -lL /dev/null
	crwxrwxrwx  1 <none>     0,   0 Feb 26 20:14 /dev/null
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this kind of check happens in /usr/bin/install, and i "install -c
/dev/null blah" to make sure files are empty.  except i can't.

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