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Re: [ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r--


On 7/20/2011 2:07 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:05 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
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


$ uname -r 1.7.7(0.230/5/3)

Works fine for me with 1.7.9. Upgrading may help. You also should check the filesystem you're on. Local NTFS is your best bet here.

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Larry

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