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- From: naam@cecer.army.mil (Ramez Naam)
- Subject: Re: failure by negation
- Message-ID: <naam.724198325@terra.cecer.army.mil>
- Sender: news@news.cecer.army.mil (Net.Noise owner)
- Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
- References: <1gdn6pINNe0d@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:12:05 GMT
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- gil@cse.ucsc.edu (Elmer Fudd) writes:
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- >hello net,
- >the following c shell program does the opposite of what i want,
- >it checks to see that a file "alive.n.well" exists, then it stops
- >execution, i want it to do the same if the file doesn't exists!
- >how do i do it? and where do i get more info about c shell programming
- >on line?
- >thanks
- >-gil
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- >test -f alive.n.well && exit
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- test -f [ ! alive.n.well ] && exit
- --
- Ramez Naam
- naam@terra.cecer.army.mil
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