Re: Use of if and test in .qmail files

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:39:41 -0400

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Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:05:32PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> test -f would be more portable than test -e, though.
>
> Really?  That surprises me, as test -e is the simpler condition.

test -f is older.  Solaris sh's builtin test doesn't have -e.

> 	| test -e DIR/threaded && ezmlm-archive DIR
>
> will cause all deliveries to fail if DIR/threaded does not exist, even
> though the above is the most obvious conditional expression.  As such,
> the test must be negated.

This would work:
| test -e DIR/threaded && exec ezmlm-archive DIR; exit 0

But "if" is more readable anyway.


paul