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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Contradictionary behaviour of a script when testing file existance
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:00:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3TtXadRENCVtSUuEb1=35u=wm_H5mDgHjL9S-68NrS+Zw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191012124854.pc4zrlgwgfobl4n6@solfire>

On 10/12/19, tuxic@posteo.de <tuxic@posteo.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When the script executes this line
>
> if [ -d blender80(:A:t) ] ; then
> ...
> fi
>
> it exits and the error message says, that there is no such file.
> That's why the test is there...I thought... ;)
>
> What do I need to change, that the test successfully tests --
> regardsless whether its result is 'true" or 'false'?

The script exits because a glob fails, you never run the test. Just
remove the useless (:A:t) part and it will be fine, eg
if [ -d blender80 ]; then

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-12 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-12 12:48 tuxic
2019-10-12 13:00 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]

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