mwoehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I *know* '! [ -a file ]' is not portable. I tried to use it in some > script, somewhere, at some time, and it was sometimes treated as history > expansion.
Quoting the "!" would take care of that particular problem, but there are some older shells, like Solaris /bin/sh, where the "!" command doesn't exist at all, so if this script will have to run in anything but bash, it'd still be good to use one of the other methods. paul _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
