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Bash: <test -w file> = true for a read-only file !!!


Hi B19 developers,

The test -w doesn't work on windows and unix files !!!

If I perform the following statement on a read-only file 
MyReadOnlyFile, the result is <Is writable> !!!

    if [-w MyReadOnlyFile ]
    then
        echo "Is writable"
    else
        echo "Is readonly"
    fi


My gnu-win32 beta release is:
uname -a : CYGWIN32_NT GLOBBY10 4.0 19.1 i686 unknown

Thanks for help or for patch...

bye

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Laurent Ricci
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