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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting If statement help Post 302279921 by cfajohnson on Saturday 24th of January 2009 08:38:32 PM
Old 01-24-2009
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Originally Posted by JerryHone
The -z test will not work in Bourne shell. It will in Korn - not sure about Bash.

The -z test will work in all Bourne-type shells.
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Also, in some forms of 'find' you need a -print command.

If you have an old version of find that requires -print (unlikely), you can test success directly:

Code:
if find / -name "$FILE_NAME"; then

 

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xmlindent(1)															      xmlindent(1)

NAME
xmlindent - XML stream reformatter SYNTAX
xmlindent [-o output file] [-i indent level] [-l max columns] [-n newline position] [-t] [-c] [-f] [-w] [-h] [-v] DESCRIPTION
XML Indent is a XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is analogous to GNU indent. OPTIONS
-o output file Write indented XML to output file -i indent level Indent each level indent level spaces deeper -l max columns Wrap lines longer than max columns -t Use tabs instead of spaces -nas Suppress newline after start-tag -nae Suppress newline after end-tag -nbs Suppress newline before start-tag -nbe Suppress newline before end-tag -f Force newline on elements without children -w Overwrite original file -v Show version -h Show command line help AUTHORS
Pekka Enberg <penberg@iki.fi> Thomas Fischer <th.fischer@gmx.net> (man page) SEE ALSO
indent(1) Thomas Fischer 0.2.17 xmlindent(1)
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