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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting syntax for CAT in ksh Post 302274199 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 7th of January 2009 03:09:47 AM
Old 01-07-2009
Use the test command with the -s option.

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FC-CAT(1)																 FC-CAT(1)

NAME
fc-cat - read font information cache files SYNOPSIS
fc-cat [ -rvVh ] [ --recurse ] [ --verbose ] [ --version ] [ --help ] [ [ fonts-cache-%version%-files ] [ dirs ] ... ] DESCRIPTION
fc-cat reads the font information from cache files or related to font directories and emits it in ASCII form. OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. -r Recurse into subdirectories. -v Be verbose. -h Show summary of options. -V Show version of the program and exit. SEE ALSO
fc-cache(1) fc-list(1) fc-match(1) fc-pattern(1) fc-query(1) fc-scan(1) The fontconfig user's guide, in HTML format: /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Patrick Lam <plam@mit.edu>. Aug 13, 2008 FC-CAT(1)
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