Re: Is this bit of scrip a reasonable way to test something

TOMTOWTDI


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> On Jan 2, 2022, at 9:29 PM, hput via beginners <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I was just coding in in ksh93 for simple script but tangled up with
> way matching and regex work in ksh93.
> 
> Finally trashed it turned to perl.
> 
> Just have familiarity with one way of test in shell script:
> 
> Put it in an if clause like (in shell):
> 
> 
>  if [ cd somedir ];then
>    print "ok permissions were good to enter somedir"
>  fi
> 
> -------       -------       ---=---       -------       ------- 
> Wanting to see if an encrypted dir is open
> -------       -------       ---=---       -------       ------- 
> 
>  #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> 
>  use strict;
>  use warnings;
> 
>  my $loc = './s';
> 
>  print "Testing with `chdir', if my perms are good to enter $loc\n";
> 
>  if (chdir $loc) {
>    print "my perms  worked to enter <$loc>\n";
>  }
> 
> Is this a reasonable way to do this or am I missing some thing that
> will be quicker and more `perl' like?
> 
> 
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