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 does not evaluate [ -z $filetime ] to true
I have also tried the reverse which is
if [ -n $filetime]; then
echo Time file: $filetime
else
echo File does not exist
fi
but I still get the same results.
What does $filetime evaluate to when the command exits with an error?
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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 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 new instance of Xemacs every time. Is there a way to configure Xemacs to open only one instance of Xemacs but keep adding the documents to it's list of buffers? Send to winclient.exe, not xemacs.exe -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ http://spacemovie.mur.at/ http://helsinki.at/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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 new instance of Xemacs every time. Is there a way to configure Xemacs to open only one instance of Xemacs but keep adding the documents to it's list of buffers? Thanks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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$/Documents and
Settings/; mkdir username; done
What I want to do is to populate the user folder with a couple of shortcuts,
so that when I log on to that machine, I will see all the shortcuts on
my desktop.
Is that possible.
Thanks
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Re: Creating user in Documents and Settings on all networked machines
I take it the answer is no. BTW, does anybody know where I can find more information about network pathnames. I didn't know about the c$ equivalent to c: until recently when my colleague told me about it. And googling for c$ or c dollar doesn't return any relevant results. On Feb 5, 2008 12:35 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! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
