On 26 Aug 2000, Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Somebody suggested `ls -d FILE | wc -l'. Maybe with a judicious
> `2>/dev/null' thrown in.
>
> What do you think?
Assuming that there isn't an ls out there that spits out the error
message onto stdout, rather than stderr, when the fil
Somebody suggested `ls -d FILE | wc -l'. Maybe with a judicious
`2>/dev/null' thrown in.
What do you think?
kai
--
I like BOTH kinds of music.
I used to use `ls -d FILE; echo $?' to test if a file exists. That,
however, fails with NetBSD 1.4 because there the ls program has a bug:
it doesn't set the exit status correctly.
Therefore, I have now switched to `test -e FILE; echo $?'. And now I
find that the Solaris /bin/sh has a test buil
