04-25-2012
Check out the -e switch of the test command. You can also take single square brackets to resemble the test command or use double square brackets to use the shell's internal test.
You can also have a look into the man page of test or your shell to see which switches are available.
And please use code tags, even this up there is just pseudo code, thanks.
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