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

Fri Oct 9 11:14:00 GMT 1998

Laurent Ricci (lri@wag.ch) wrote:
> If I perform the following statement on a read-only file MyReadOnlyFile, the result is !!!
> if [-w MyReadOnlyFile ] 
> then 
> 	echo "Is writable"
> else
> 	echo "Is readonly"
> fi

I have noticed this too, and that 'sh' and 'bash' will often return different results from
the same test. I guess the answer is to get the best copy of sh / bash from one of the
primary hackers here and use it as both sh and bash.
Anyone have a better answer?
Joseph Banta
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