I thought I had sent this before, but I'm not sure I did... Sorry if
it's a duplicate.
On Dec 15, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +if ls a.* >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> + rm -rf conftestdir
> + mkdir conftestdir
> + mv a.* conftestdir
> +fi
[snip]
> +if test -d conftestdir; then
> + mv conftestdir/* .
> + rm -rf conftestdir
> +fi
Note that if conftestdir exists in the beginning and there aren't any
a.* files in the current directory, you'll end up moving the contents
of conftestdir to the current directory at the end. Better rm -rf it
up-front, unconditionally.
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