Re: Bash globbing files only?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 30Jan2007 09:08, Daniel Qarras  wrote:
| PS. A hard headed zsh user would continue to complain that there's no
| way to differ between files and links in bash without find but I won't
| go into that :)

A POSIX shell requires that the test command supports this:

-h  file
              True if file exists and is a symbolic link.
       -L  file
              True if file exists and is a symbolic link.

There are two letters for historic reasons. Bash supports both, and so
does zsh.

Of course, if you mean a hardlink, then you're asking a question
that is meaningless.

BTW, I tend to test directorishness like this:

[ -d foo/. ]

which works for a directory or a symlink that resolves to a directory.