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# 8  
Old 08-27-2009
Yes. The point was for demonstrative purposes!
# 9  
Old 08-27-2009
Excellent. Works great. Thanks everyone for the creative ideas.

Robert
# 10  
Old 08-27-2009
While vgersh99 mentioned colons...

They work great as comments...
Code:
if [ "$X" = 1 ]; then
  # rm -f blah
fi

would give an error, but..
Code:
if [ "$X" = 1 ]; then
  : rm -f blah
fi

wouldn't.
# 11  
Old 08-27-2009
Why not ...

Code:
if [ -f "${filename}" ]
then
       rm -f "${filename}"
fi

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