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Subject: RE: bash programming: testing for empty string
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:45:42 +0100
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try [ -z "$filetime" ] instead of [-z "$filetime"]

  matthias 



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From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 5. March 2008 10:28
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: bash programming: testing for empty string

Hi,

I'm trying to find the time of a file by doing this.

filetime=`ls -l --time-style=+%a:%H:%M /tmp/1.txt | awk '{print $6}'`

if [ -z "$filetime"]; then
 echo "File does not exist"
else
 echo "Time file: $filetime"
fi
...

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