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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: question-- Bourne (and C) SHELL
Message-ID: <6196@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Aug-86 15:25:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: elsie.6196
Posted: Sun Aug 24 15:25:08 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 24-Aug-86 19:46:37 EDT
References: <3257@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Summary: case

> I haven't seen any mention of our Bourne shell friend "||".  How about
> (assuming ls returns correct status):
> 
> 	ls foo || echo foo does not exist

For the truly esoterically minded
(especially those who don't want to run "ls" or "test" or any other
non-built-ins on BSD systems):

	case fo[o] in
		foo)	;;
		*)	echo foo does not exist ;;
		:-)	;;
	esac
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