X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:51:08 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Executable named "[.exe" in c:\cygwin\bin? Message-ID: <20101212195108.GF14369@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4D04C14E DOT 90607 AT gmx DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D04C14E.90607@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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