Is this a bug?

[swoll1980]

In the .bashrc there is several if conditions that look like
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]
If they are going to bother to check if the file exist, shouldn't they make sure the file is readable? I'm new to this scripting, but it seemed kind of odd. Wouldn't -r be a better solution?

[ibuclaw]

Good point. But given the way that these files are packaged, they generally have the correct file permissions when you install them, so is never a worry.

You can't stop human interference / optimism though. But I can't imagine someone chmod -r /etc/bash.bashrc unless they knowingly intended to do that...

[swoll1980]

Good point. But given the way that these files are packaged, they generally have the correct file permissions when you install them, so is never a worry.

You can't stop human interference / optimism though. But I can't imagine someone chmod -r /etc/bash.bashrc unless they knowingly intended to do that...

So no then?

[ibuclaw]

So no then?

You make perfect sense in your claim for using -r over -f. But I wouldn't regard it as a bug in in that respect. (May be worth wish-listing though).

[swoll1980]

Ok. If it's not important I'll just pretend it never happened.