On 8/21/17 9:27 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 05:30:34PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote:
>> Allowing: >> >> test -{f,x} /bin/ls && ... >> or >> if [[ -{f,x} $file ]]; then ... ; fi >> >> instead of: >> >> test -f /bin/ls && test -x /bin/ls && ... > > You could write your own helper functions for this: > > -fx() { test -f "$1" && test -x "$1"; } This is indeed a quick and easy way to implement desired functionality. Shell functions can do a lot. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/