Is there a way for a bash script to test if it can cd into a directory without actually attempting to cd into it?
I am looking for something along the lines of:
Code:
if [ -d $dir ];then
#code to execute
fi
except in this case I don't want to test if the directory exists; what I want is to test if the script has the permission to cd into the directory.
I know there are other ways of achieving this but does bash provide a shortcut?
Hello,
I'm trying to test if a directory specified in a script parameter is available or not.
I wrote a little code to do so, but there's a problem because I receive an error message.
My code:
#Verify command parameter
if
then
echo 'Incorrect command parameter'
echo... (3 Replies)
I've been using the following code to make sure a shell script only runs under a "safe" directory.
Comments/Improvements?
#!/bin/sh
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
#..........................................................#... (8 Replies)
i am using solaris 5.10. i can create two different files "test" and ".test" in the same directory. now suppose i want to change the attribute of the hidden file .test to visible is it possible???
since "." is just an attribute to mark a file hidden why is unix allows creation of "file" and... (14 Replies)
Hi,
I'm writing a shell script that will create a folder if it does not exist yet. Here's the script: (this if statement is inside a while loop)
folderName="Pics"
if ! test -d folderName
then
mkdir $folderName
fi
However, after the folder Pics has been created, every time the... (3 Replies)
rm: Unable to remove directory /mnt/users/test/logs/: File exists
ls -latr
total 191208
drwxrwxrwx 6 test echo 4096 Jul 3 22:36 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 test echo 97692804 Jul 3 22:36 .nfsDFA4
drwxrwxr-x 2 test echo 4096 Jul 3 23:00 .
M not able to delete... (4 Replies)
I'm almost pulling out my hair trying to figure out what's wrong with this... there's no reason I can see that it shouldn't be working. It seems that the code acts as though the conditional statement is true no matter what - I've even tried removing the negation operator, but it always goes into... (5 Replies)
This is the code:
while test 1 -eq 1
do
read a
$a
if test $a = stop
then
break
fi
done
I read a command on every loop an execute it.
I check if the string equals the word stop to end the loop,but it say that I gave too many arguments to test.
For example echo hello.
Now the... (1 Reply)
How to check weather a string is like test* or test* ot *test* in if condition (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: johnjerome
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shunit2
SHUNIT2(1)SHUNIT2(1)NAME
shunit2 - A unit test framework for shell scripts
SYNOPSIS
shunit2 unitfile
DESCRIPTION
shUnit2 is a xUnit unit test framework for Bourne based shell scripts, and it is designed to work in a similar manner to JUnit, PyUnit,
etc.. If you have ever had the desire to write a unit test for a shell script, shUnit2 can do the job.
You can either run shunit2 directly from the commandline and specify the unit file or directly source the shunit2 executable.
If you directly execute shunit2 and don't specify a unitfile shunit2 assumes a empty testfile and will return without an error message.
EXAMPLE
Simple script to test if 1 equals 1
#! /bin/sh
testEquality()
{
assertEquals 1 1
}
# load shunit2
. shunit2
Execute shUnit2 unit tests directly from the commandline
shunit2 /path/to/unit/file
OPTIONS
shunit2 does not support any commandline options at all. You can either source shunit2 to execute your unit tests or directly run shunit2
as a commandline script.
SEE ALSO
For more information see http://code.google.com/p/shunit2/ or have a look at the installed documentation in /usr/share/doc/shunit2/
AUTHOR
shunit2 was written by Kate Ward <kate.ward@forestent.com>. This manpage was written by Ulrich Dangel <mru@spamt.net>.
2.1.6 03/25/2012 SHUNIT2(1)