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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting I have no idea what is wrong with my simple script. Post 302741257 by iamdeman on Friday 7th of December 2012 05:22:10 PM
Old 12-07-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
First, omit double quotes in the if condition. Second, you need to put negation in there to make it work. Try it like this:
Code:
if [ ! -d ~/.TRASH ]

Perfect. I have no idea why I quoted and could not see it. I am just getting my feet wet. I appreciate the help, it worked beautifully. Now I have a folder .TRASH and files are moved in with an appended date/time. Just need to alias it to RM now.

Thanks again!

EDIT: I spoke too soon. Upon looking in the directory created, it is not appending the date/time to the files uggh. I was doing this to avoid file collision, so this will not work.

---------- Post updated at 05:22 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:18 PM ----------

Uggh, spoke to soon, dates not appending.
 

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