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How universal is the -L (dereference symlink) switch of the 'ls' command?
I have some software that, among other things, needs to:
Assess a file's rwxrwxrwx permissions;
Work under every possible flavor of Unix and Linux you can find in the wild.
Currently, it does that ...
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When does `ls -s` print “0”
Of course, the standard way of testing if a file is empty is with test -s FILE, but one of our clients have received a script containing tests like this:
RETVAL=`ls -s ./log/cr_trig.log | awk '{print ...
