Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!miller
From: miller@uwovax.uwo.ca (Greg Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Help needed with conditional statement for alias in csh
Summary: Anybody know how to do this?
Keywords: alias, conditional, expression
Message-ID: <6929.26ed0b53@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 11 Sep 90 20:05:38 GMT
Reply-To: J G Miller <miller@ria.ccs.uwo.CA>
Followup-To: J G Miller <miller@ria.ccs.uwo.CA>
Organization: University of Western Ontario, LONDON, ON
Lines: 27

Hi!

I have been having great problems in setting up an alias within csh.

I want to test for the presence of a file, and if it exists then
to execute some statements e.g.


if ( { test -s /usr/spool/mail/miller } ) then; echo "" ; echo "New mail" ;\
 echo "" ; endif


The above does not work because when executed the endif statement is not
reached.  The problem appears to be related to the brackets associated
with the expression in the condition.

Could somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong and how to do
this in a one line command that can be aliased?

Thanks!

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