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From: bammi@curie.ces.cwru.edu (Jwahar R. Bammi)
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Subject: Re: Gulam question
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Date: 6 Sep 90 20:57:18 GMT
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In-Reply-To: pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu's message of 6 Sep 90 15:08:22 GMT

In article <56683@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> pwp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Paul Purdom) writes:

   a regular file a directory, etc. Is there some way to test what the
   extension on a file is? I don't see how to do this from reading the manual,
   but maybe I have overlooked something.

Not directly, but you can run an external program, and test its return
status with an 'if'. the return status of the last command is recorded in
the shell variable 'status'.
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