question-- Bourne (and C) SHELL

[Arthur David Olson]

> I haven't seen any mention of our Bourne shell friend "||".  How about
> (assuming ls returns correct status):
> 
> 	ls foo || echo foo does not exist

For the truly esoterically minded
(especially those who don't want to run "ls" or "test" or any other
non-built-ins on BSD systems):

	case fo[o] in
		foo)	;;
		*)	echo foo does not exist ;;
		:-)	;;
	esac
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