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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:20:56 +0100
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Subject: [9fans] rc expression question
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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.