How do I ask "if NOT" in shell?
Randal Schwartz
merlyn at iwarp.intel.com
Tue Oct 24 06:18:58 AEST 1989
In article <28381 at shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, kirkaas at oahu (paul kirkaas) writes:
| How can one say "if not" in a shellscript; that is, execute the body of
| the "then" only if the argument of "if" returns a non-zero exit status?
|
| I would like something like:
|
| if ! TESTCOMMAND
| then
| BODY
| fi
|
| Stupid question? Trivial answer? I hope so. Thanks.
Yeah.
if TESTCOMMAND
then
: nada
else
BODY
fi
Easy.
Just another Bourne-again hacker,
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