question-- Bourne (and C) SHELL (expression evaluation)
chris
chris at pixutl.UUCP
Tue Aug 19 06:18:16 AEST 1986
You can also do:
( ls foo ) || echo not there
or, more cheaply:
{ ls foo ; } || echo not there
and if you didn't want to see the output of the ls command,
{ ls foo >/dev/null 2>&1 ; } || echo not there
Chris
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