On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@verizon.net> wrote: > I'll try that, but IIRC if the dir is empty, ls still returns a linefeed. > brb. > Nope, tried with !='' and !='\n', with almost the same result, the diff being > that now the error message on the console is minus the ending ] now. > > ./flush.sh: line 173: [20091019011512: command not found
The whitespace is significant in the command I showed: if [ `/bin/ls /dumps` != "" ] btw, the shell strips leading and trailing whitespace, so don't worry about the newline. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
