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| author | Shoaib Meenai <smeenai@fb.com> | 2019-04-04 00:25:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Shoaib Meenai <smeenai@fb.com> | 2019-04-04 00:25:52 (GMT) |
| commit | 78ac8cb04a0723b10a9225e97a9e04c126a38a99 (patch) | |
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Help: clarify if(EXISTS) operation for symlinks
if(EXISTS) resolves symlinks; note this explicitly in its documentation.
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diff --git a/Help/command/if.rst b/Help/command/if.rst index a48a0fa..b79fd6c 100644 --- a/Help/command/if.rst +++ b/Help/command/if.rst @@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ Possible conditions are: ``if(EXISTS path-to-file-or-directory)`` True if the named file or directory exists. Behavior is well-defined - only for full paths. + only for full paths. Resolves symbolic links, i.e. if the named file or + directory is a symbolic link, returns true if the target of the + symbolic link exists. ``if(file1 IS_NEWER_THAN file2)`` True if ``file1`` is newer than ``file2`` or if one of the two files doesn't |