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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2019-04-04 16:51:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2019-04-04 16:51:41 (GMT) |
| commit | 8c28e63cb4da99dbb894573a996c27e260b5baeb (patch) | |
| tree | f986fe02e32eb1f93513aa6cac4cac363c7af4f0 /Help | |
| parent | 56abc31270cbe60845021107383f1cede0ed075e (diff) | |
| parent | 78ac8cb04a0723b10a9225e97a9e04c126a38a99 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'if-EXISTS-doc'
78ac8cb04a Help: clarify if(EXISTS) operation for symlinks
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !3189
Diffstat (limited to 'Help')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/if.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/if.rst b/Help/command/if.rst index f377f2c..d8e3a45 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 |