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From: "Kristopher Borodiansky" <elit@home.com>
To: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net>,
	"Freebsd Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Need help with Bash function
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 01:25:26 -0400
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Hi Duke,

    Try this in your .bash_profile :

function ezq ()
  {
if test -a ~/tmp/*;then
 echo "There's something here.";else
 echo "Empty.";
fi;}

echo by default will newline unless -n is specified such as: echo -n "Text
to echo"

Hope that helps.

    Regards,

Kris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net>
To: "Freebsd Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:42 AM
Subject: Need help with Bash function


>
> I'm trying to debug the following function w/o much success.
>
> function ezq() {
> if [ -a ~/tmp/* ]; then
>     echo -e "there's something here....\n"
> else
>     echo -e "empty....\n"
> fi
> }
> I keep on getting:
>
> '[: binary operator expected'
>
> Is it whinning about the '-a' above? Why?
>
> All I want to do is to check to see if a directory is empty or not.
> TIA...
> --
> -duke
> Calgary, Alberta, Canada
>
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