In PC-DOS and hence OS/2 and Windows, hidden is an attribute of a directory entry.
In UNIX there is merely a convention to treat files with a leading period as hidden.
Exactly! test and .test are totally different filenames. They have nothing to do with each other except that they are in the same filesystem and in the same directory.
As you can see, the inode numbers are different, making these different files, not representations of the same file.
Hello,
I'm trying to test if a directory specified in a script parameter is available or not.
I wrote a little code to do so, but there's a problem because I receive an error message.
My code:
#Verify command parameter
if
then
echo 'Incorrect command parameter'
echo... (3 Replies)
This is the code:
while test 1 -eq 1
do
read a
$a
if test $a = stop
then
break
fi
done
I read a command on every loop an execute it.
I check if the string equals the word stop to end the loop,but it say that I gave too many arguments to test.
For example echo hello.
Now the... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a Python unit test cases source code file which contains more than a hundred test case methods. In that, some of the test case methods already have prefix 'test' where as some of them do not have. Now, I need to add the string 'test' (case-sensitive) as a prefix to those of the... (5 Replies)
Is there a way for a bash script to test if it can cd into a directory without actually attempting to cd into it?
I am looking for something along the lines of:
if ;then
#code to execute
fi
except in this case I don't want to test if the directory exists; what I want is to test... (8 Replies)