Re: why does this exit = 1 ?

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

This has been sitting in my mailbox for a few days ...

On Apr 5,  4:27pm, C. v. Stuckrad wrote:
} Subject: Re: why does this exit = 1 ?
}
} strange thou, it works for me, tested it in a zsh-function!
} 
} So what does happen really ?
} 
} > On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
} > > I have this little snippet:
} > > ...
} > > if [ -r /LocalLibrary/Images/Icons/tempPark.tiff -a ! -r /tmp/.dir.tiff ] then   
} > >          ln -s /LocalLibrary/Images/Icons/tempPark.tiff /tmp/.dir.tiff
} > > fi
} > > 
} > > When I run it and there is already a /tmp/.dir.tiff it exits = 1

Two guesses:

1.  It's the alias-for-fi problem again, but something else is masking the
    syntax error.

2.  /tmp/.dir.tiff exists but is not readable, so [ ! -r /tmp/.dir.tiff ]
    succeeds but ln fails.  Try [ ! -f /tmp/.dir.tiff ].

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