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test -L checks if a file is a symlink; no need for realpath comparisons (which is slower)

• tux2bsd 3y ago
  > checks if a file is a symlink to expand on that: "In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory (called the "target") by specifying a path thereto."
• somat 3y ago
  Yeah but what do you do if your are not using shell? Hint: it's stat(2) (or equivalent in your language library) Additional hint: if using pythons os.stat set follow_symlinks to false. It recently took me an embarrassing long time to figure out why my script was failing to find symlinks.
  • nunez 3y ago
    but they were using a shell script in this blog though (and, yes, stat(2) is the way to go there)
    • tux2bsd 3y ago
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