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Mattias Andrée |
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Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory |
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Wed, 6 Apr 2016 22:36:50 +0200 |
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 16:23:23 -0400
Michael Stone <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 10:10:26PM +0200, Mattias Andrée
> wrote:
> >We have now demonstrated that attempts to
> >implement this functionally in shell script
> >without -E is prone to errors in addition
> >to being messy.
>
> Just wondering, what's the use case?
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> Mike Stone
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I just don't want a separate tool for it,
and I especially do not want to see something
like the suggested exists command for this —
that is some harmful shit — but it could be
useful on some more advanced shell scripts —
you know how some people write entire programs
in Bash, you do sometimes have to make this
test in actual programs, such as diff and shred
— and it is nice for completeness, just like
there is flag for every file type including
FIFO:s, sockets and even terminals.
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- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Eric Blake, 2016/04/06
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Mattias Andrée, 2016/04/06
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Assaf Gordon, 2016/04/06
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Mattias Andrée, 2016/04/06
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Mattias Andrée, 2016/04/06
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Michael Stone, 2016/04/06
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory,
Mattias Andrée <=
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Michael Stone, 2016/04/06
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Mattias Andrée, 2016/04/06
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Mattias Andrée, 2016/04/06
- Re: [PATCH] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Mattias Andrée, 2016/04/06
[PATCH v2 1/2] test: Add unary operator -E: test that a file is an empty directory, Mattias Andrée, 2016/04/07