On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:32:42AM -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > Yeah, I've never liked the _ syntax, I've always thought it was weird
> > (to say the least). I think grouping file tests would be much cleaner.
>
> As long as you are okay with having to restat for 'or' clauses.
> (There are work arounds, and supposedly 'this or that' is less common
> for file tests.)
A rather sweeping statement. ANDing makes more sense for the
permissions checks, but ORing makes more sense for the type checks.
For example, I can imagine -f $foo || -l $foo being a rather common idiom.
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