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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: testing if a file is present
Message-ID: <2357@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 90 03:08:55 GMT
References: <ger.659126250@prisma> <1990Nov21.155149.3505@informix.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1990Nov21.155149.3505@informix.com> dberg@informix.com (David I. Berg) writes:

| -z if filename is zero length,

  Actually -z (zero length) and -n (non-zero length) apply to any string
following the operator, although it certainly applies to filename in strings.
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