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 However, when the file does not exist and filetime returns an empty string, it

Re: Open Documents in the same XEmacs window

Thanks, winclient is exactly what I wanted. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/2/20, bootleg86 bootleg86 : Hi, I installed the Windows binaries for XEmacs, rather than using the cygwin version. So I'm not too sure if this is the right

Open Documents in the same XEmacs window

Hi, I installed the Windows binaries for XEmacs, rather than using the cygwin version. So I'm not too sure if this is the right place to ask this question. I created a shortcut to xemacs.exe in my SendTo folder. I then select a document, right-click and then SendTo - XEmacs. But this opens up a

Creating user in Documents and Settings on all networked machines

Hi, Would it be possible to create a user folder in Documents and Settings even if I have not logged on to the machine I was thinking something along the line for i in `seq -w 1 10`; do cd //machine${i}/c$/Documents and Settings/; mkdir username; done What I want to do is to populate the user

Re: Creating user in Documents and Settings on all networked machines

PM, Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05 February 2008 17:18, bootleg86 bootleg86 wrote: Hi, Would it be possible to create a user folder in Documents and Settings even if I have not logged on to the machine I know windows security is bad, but it's not quite that pathetic