[[ ]] or [ ] act like "words" in shell. The word they almost exactly represent is "test".
So if you look up test documentation you find a lot of stuff you can test for.
is the equivalent to
and -s means 'Does the file exist and is the file size greater than zero (not empty)?'
! in front of the -s reverses the meaning because ! is the "not" operator.
Check out the other -[options] when you get a chance.
AIX 5.3 / KSH
I have a Java application which creates a log file a.log. I have a KSH script which does the following action
cp a.log /directory2/b.log
> a.log
After this the file size goes to 0 as per "ls -l"
Then next time when the application writes into this file, the file size... (4 Replies)
hi
how can I determine, if a file is empty or not?I am using read line clause.
The script should be like:
while read line
do
if(file is empty) then;
......
done < $blacklist (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am checking for a empty input file to do some further action , but I am getting exit status 0 in both the cases , for empty and non empty file both.
The value of $? is coming 0 in if part also and else part too.
#!/bin/ksh
if ]; then
echo "data"
# exit 0
echo "$?"
else... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a piece of perl code in which I DON'T want to delete a file rather empty out the contents, here is the code -
if ( unlink("$opt_b") == 1 ) {
print_log( "$opt_b deleted", 1 );
}else {
print_log( "Could not delete $opt_b:$!", 1 );
... (5 Replies)
The below awk improved bu @MadeInGermany, works great as long as the input file has data in it in the below format:
input
chrX 25031028 25031925 chrX:25031028-25031925 ARX 631 18
chrX 25031028 25031925 chrX:25031028-25031925 ARX 632 14... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
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wibble-test-genrunner
wibble-test-genrunner(1) General Commands Manual wibble-test-genrunner(1)NAME
wibble-test-genrunner - Code generator for wibble testsuites.
SYNOPSIS
wibble-test-genrunner header <file>
wibble-test-genrunner main <files>
DESCRIPTION
The program generates .cpp files that are then compiled and linked into a test program for running tests from .test.h files. Examples of
such .test.h files may be found among wibble headers, eg. /usr/include/wibble/regexp.test.h.
In the first form, the program processes a single header file (usually of the form foo.test.h) and produces a corresponding .cpp file to be
compiled. In the second form, it takes as <files> all the .test.h headers and produces a single main.cpp which contains the main() function
of the test program, which then runs all the tests in all the .test.h files. The generated source code is always written to standard output
and it is left up to the user to redirect it to a meaningful location.
The program currently has no options other than the two forms above. The program is intended to be run as part of build process of programs
or libraries using the wibble testing framework. For convenient use from CMake, there is a test.cmake script under /usr/share/wibble, that
takes care of producing all the .cpp files (both per-header and the main one), compiling them and linking them into a single binary which
executes the testsuite.
AUTHOR
Petr Rockai <me@mornfall.net>
wibble-test-genrunner(1)