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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting identify whether idrectory or ordinary file Post 88511 by vino on Saturday 5th of November 2005 05:02:49 AM
Old 11-05-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by surjyap
is there any other command or technique available?
Yes.

This one just popped out of my head. Very unconventional tho'...

Use rm

Look at the demo below.

Code:
sh-2.05b$ mkdir suryap
sh-2.05b$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x    2 -------- g900         4096 Nov  5 01:58 suryap
sh-2.05b$ rm suryap/
rm: cannot remove `suryap': Is a directory
sh-2.05b$ rm -r suryap/
sh-2.05b$ ls -l suryap
ls: suryap: No such file or directory

Code:
sh-2.05b$ touch suryap
sh-2.05b$ ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x    2 -------- g900         4096 Nov  5 02:00 suryap
sh-2.05b$ rm suryap
sh-2.05b$ ls -l suryap
ls: suryap: No such file or directory

vino
 

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Xmark(1)						      General Commands Manual							  Xmark(1)

NAME
Xmark - summarize x11perf results SYNTAX
Xmark datafile DESCRIPTION
Xmark is a shell script that reads the indicated datafile and compiles a benchmark which it writes to standard output. It writes three numbers: A weighted performance number for the x11perf results. A weighted performance number for a standard SparcStation 1, with SunOS 4.1.2, X11R5 Xsun, and a CG3 dumb Color Frame Buffer. The Xmark, which is the ratio of the two numbers above. The datafile must be an ordinary file, produced by x11perf in the following way: x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy GXxor -all > datafile It is possible to run the GXcopy and GXxor tests separately, as long as they are concatenated to the same output file: x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy -all > datafile x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXxor -all >> datafile or x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXxor -all > datafile x11perf -display display -v1.3 -rop GXcopy -all >> datafile FILES
temp.$$ Temporary file created in the current directory, deleted after use. DIAGNOSTICS
Usage: Xmark datafile Xmark was invoked without arguments or with more than one argument, or with options. Xmark takes no options. Error: data file does not exist or is not ordinary. Xmark cannot find the datafile named on its command line, or the datafile is a special file such as a directory. WARNING: datafile contains nnn, not 441 or 447 'trep' results; The file named on the command line does not seem to be a file generated by x11perf in the expected way. Diagnostic: ERROR: sum of weights =nnn, not equal to 4566.0; There is an internal error in Xmark. SEE ALSO
X(7), x11perf(1), x11perfcomp(1) X Version 11 x11perf 1.5.1 Xmark(1)
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