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Old 01-03-2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson View Post

What are you trying to move? You haven't checked whether there is a file (or directory) called conf in the current directory.

How do you know that /etc/dmi/conf doesn't exist? You didn't test for it; you tested for a directory of that name.

The same comments apply to the next section as well.
Do you mean test, like so:


Code:
test -d /etc/dmi/conf
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]
then
   print '/etc/dmi/conf does exist'
else
   print '/etc/dmi/conf does NOT exist'
fi

and when executed...
em23@sparky:~$ ./test.sh
/etc/dmi/conf does exist