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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to list the content of a directory Post 302523388 by Chirel on Wednesday 18th of May 2011 06:29:34 PM
Old 05-18-2011
Hi,

Just some clue to help you find the answers :

Testing if it's a directory : [ -d $name ]
Print the content of a directory : ls $name

Good luck Smilie

Edit: damn i was too slow to answer Smilie

Last edited by Chirel; 05-18-2011 at 07:30 PM.. Reason: too slow
 

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NAME
Testing::randomValue - Return a random value SYNOPSIS
Arbitrary randomValue( Int depth=10 ) ARGUMENTS
depth This parameter gives the maximum depth of recursion to guarantee that the value has finite size. The default value is 10 and can usu- ally be omitted. DESCRIPTION
Return a random value of arbitrary type. AUTHORS
Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For further information see http://kayalang.org/ LICENSE
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