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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Bourne shell question
Keywords: pipe, logical 'or' and " pg ".
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Date: 12 Oct 89 04:13:14 GMT
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In article <1943@sactoh0.UUCP>, jak@sactoh0 (Jay A. Konigsberg) writes:
| 
| I have a small shell script that I can't get quite right. What it
| is supposed to do is list subdirectories or the message "There are
| no subdirectories". The script is as follows:
| 
| ls -l | grep "^d" | pg || echo "There are no subdirectories"
| 
| When the pipe into " pg " is removed it works ok, but I would like
| to keep the pg in the script.

Cheat.  Try something like:

(ls -l | grep "^d" || echo "There are no subdirectories") | pg

'course, this puts "There are no.." through the pg, but who cares?
I said it was cheating.

Nope, I can't do it in Perl any shorter. :-)
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