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[ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r--
- From: Reid Thompson <Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:05:47 -0400
- Subject: [ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r--
- Reply-to: Reid dot Thompson at ateb dot com
Is this broken? Or a known windows/cygwin discrepancy? Or am I missing
something with my posix/windows file permissions settings
reid.thompson@ws-jrt ~
$ ls -rlt afile
-r--r--r-- 1 reid.thompson Domain Users 6 2011-07-20 14:02 afile
reid.thompson@ws-jrt ~
$ if [ -w afile ]; then echo " file is writeable"; else echo " file
is not writeable"; fi
file is writeable
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