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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Condition in bash script Post 303038800 by indeed_1 on Friday 13th of September 2019 12:06:51 PM
Old 09-13-2019
Before cp I cleanup /home/user , and I make sure destination is empty after that run script , do you have any other recommendation?

Quote:
Originally Posted by eckertd
If you're looking to see if the specified file exists

Code:
if [ -f <filename> ]; then
  cp ....
else
  cp ...
fi

'-f' test if the file exists, and is a regular file (not a directory, etc)

See 'man test' for more conditions you can test for. They come in handy!
 

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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)
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