Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 01:25:26 -0400 From: "Kristopher Borodiansky" <elit@home.com> To: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net>, "Freebsd Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Need help with Bash function Message-ID: <001101c0e736$9a18a310$b8690f41@funhouse> References: <20010527224221.A111533@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca>
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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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