I want to make the file test condition a variable ($Prmshn in code below).
My goal is to use something like the first three unsuccessful if statetments since the 'if [[' is the newer style. Note: I copied the error message to the right of each of the three unsuccessful if statements.
You are setting a variable to start with the character "-".
Why are you expceting this to return true?
What are you expecting the user to pass?
Suggestion:
When labeling a variable like 'if', 'is', 'be' or 'do'-XY, i recomend that the variable is actualy a boolean.
So, when setting the variable, you take care that only a return value is stored, so you can check (use IF) it like you did.
Anyhow, for if blocks, i do not recomend 'test', though that is only personal preference, but to me the following are the same and tend to be most effective:
sea -
I was hoping that one of these if statements:
would resolve to:
RudiC-
I changed the condition from r to v and received the same syntax error messages.
All -
this statement works:
however this statement does not work:
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I should clarify that the permissions on the file that my condition test is examining are:
Last edited by rbatte1; 12-19-2014 at 02:03 PM..
Reason: Added CODE tags and corrected spelling and case
Ahhh i guess i understand (partly) what you want...
-${Prmshn} does NOT expand to: -P, -r, -m, -s, -h, -n
It expands to -'content_of_variable_Prmshn', which actualy is just what you passed as first argument $1.
As suggested by Rudi, execute your script with either -v or -x.
Hope this helps
sea/RudiC - if i understand your suggestion correctly, i have called the test_input function with a -x parameter.
i still had similar results with the -x not resolving for the newist form of if statement (using the [[) however the -x resolves ok with the older forms of if statements (using [ and also test):
The '-x' is not chaning anything of how it executes.
It just prints it before, so you have a way to see and check if the script does what it should.
As in, are there variables, and if there are, are they the right ones, and so on...
Write:
above
and run the script without '-x' and post its output please.
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