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From: robert@pttesac.UUCP (Robert Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ksh incompatabilities with sh?
Summary: "if" syntax error
Message-ID: <785@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 04:48:09 GMT
References: <16094@brl-adm.ARPA> <15352@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: robert@pttesac.UUCP (Robert Rodriguez)
Organization: Pacific*Bell ESAC, San Francisco, Ca.
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A colleauge of mine found an incompatibility between ksh and sh.

In the System V "sh" the following test works:

if [ -f /usr/anyusr/* ] ; then
  # There are files there

But "ksh" claims this is a syntax error.

Our $0.02 worth.

While I'm posting, I'm 'gonna up it to $0.04.

A guy posted a message asking for a AWK to C converter.  He was flamed,
told to find /bin/cc.  That stinks in my opinion.  The guy who flamed
him should read the guest article in the January issue of UNIX World.