From: Michael Barnes <mibarnes@mail.vth.vt.edu>
To: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+Lists/Zsh/users@luomat.peak.org>
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: why does this exit = 1 ?
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 04:22:20 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980405041927.14698A-100000@mail.vth.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199804050800.EAA20624@luomat.peak.org>
The if statement returns false so the script returns false (1),
if you want the script to return true just add exit 0 at the end.
Mike
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
>
> I am curious why it does that, since there shouldn't be any 'error' --- or
> am I missing something?
>
> TjL
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-05 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-05 8:00 Timothy J Luoma
1998-04-05 8:22 ` Michael Barnes [this message]
1998-04-05 14:27 ` C. v. Stuckrad
1998-04-09 5:50 ` Bart Schaefer
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