On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 01:34:22PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: >Am 12.12.2010 13:31, schrieb Csaba Raduly: > >> I guess something like this: >> >> [ -f file ] && echo is > >True, but this is bad style. Reason is you cannot run scripts containing this >under a "set -e" regime. However, most scripts should be doing that (and set >-u >is also often advised), so that errors don't go unnoticed.
The above should work as expected with set -e. In fact, you need to do something like that if you've used "set -e". Consider the variant: #!/bin/sh -e [ -f /fmp/fonexistent ] || echo nonexistent It works just fine. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
