* [9fans] rc expression question
@ 2017-03-17 10:20 dexen deVries
2017-04-01 3:59 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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From: dexen deVries @ 2017-03-17 10:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
given
pathnames = ( foo/a.txt bar/b.txt baz/c.txt )
how do i construct arguments to test(1) that test for existence of
those files in one go?
wanted:
test -e foo/a.txt -o -e bar/b.txt -o -e baz/c.txt
assuming the pathnames may contain space characters.
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* Re: [9fans] rc expression question
2017-03-17 10:20 [9fans] rc expression question dexen deVries
@ 2017-04-01 3:59 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2017-04-01 3:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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something like this?
% xxx=`{echo test '-e '^$pathnames^' -o' 1 '!=' 1}
% $xxx
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:31 PM dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
wrote:
> given
> pathnames = ( foo/a.txt bar/b.txt baz/c.txt )
>
> how do i construct arguments to test(1) that test for existence of
> those files in one go?
>
> wanted:
> test -e foo/a.txt -o -e bar/b.txt -o -e baz/c.txt
>
> assuming the pathnames may contain space characters.
>
>
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