You meant -e, and that does work with msh.
Thanks a lot, Jamie. That was the trick.
(In the bash documentation -a and -e are equivalent, so I stopped
reading when I found -a.)
How did you know this ? Do you have an msh documentation ?
-Michael
Michael Schnell wrote:
You meant -e, and that does work with msh.
Thanks a lot, Jamie. That was the trick.
(In the bash documentation -a and -e are equivalent, so I stopped
reading when I found -a.)
How did you know this ? Do you have an msh documentation ?
I did man sh, man test or
I did man sh, man test or man [ - all of them (on Ubuntu) have
-e but not -a for file testing. :-)
I did man bash on Suse 10.3
There's no msh documentation as far as I know, but it's basically a
standardish old-style Bourne shell with some bugs, and notably no
user-defined functions (which
Am Dienstag, den 10.06.2008, 12:25 +0100 schrieb Jamie Lokier:
There's no msh documentation as far as I know, but it's basically a
standardish old-style Bourne shell with some bugs, and notably no
user-defined functions (which are a modern feature anyway). So most
sh documentation applies
Hi Experts,
I don't find any documentation to msh (other than that it is supposed to
work similar to bash) :)
Does anybody know how I can detect if a file exists with msh ?
if [ -a xy ]; then .
does not seem to work.
What am I doing wrong ?
Thanks,
-Michael
Michael Schnell wrote:
if [ -a xy ]; then .
does not seem to work.
What am I doing wrong ?
You meant -e, and that does work with msh.
-- Jamie
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