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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Shell Script - (File and Directory) Post 302735611 by alister on Sunday 25th of November 2012 05:35:46 PM
Old 11-25-2012
If the filename doesn't exist, why would you expect it to enter the first if statement? To put it differently, if something doesn't exist, how could it possibly be either a directory or a file? test -d and test -f both fail if their argument doesn't exist (which, by the way, means that both of your tests for existence, test ! -e, are pointless, as they can never succeed since they follow a successful test -d or test -f, both of which are predicated on existence).

A simpler approach would be to simply set the mode depending on whether a file or directory exists, instead of having multiple code paths leading to different chmod commands.

Regards,
Alister

Last edited by alister; 11-25-2012 at 06:41 PM..
 

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