On 1/5/11 4:42 AM, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 02:26:12AM -0800, S Mathias wrote:
>> $ echo ${PWD##*/}
>> somefolder
>> $ if "${PWD##*/}" -eq "asdf"> /dev/null; then echo "this is the asdf folder"; else exit 1; fi
>> bash: notthatfolder: command not found...
>> this is the asdf folder
>> $
>>
>>
>> So i just want to check that i'm in an exact folder. e.g.: "asdf"
>>
>> What's wrong with my one-liner?
>
> What's wrong is you can't read man pages or research on your
> own. "man bash"; your problem is covered there.
It is there, but it's pretty obscure. A hint is that 'if' wants to execute
something, and in the old days /bin/test and /bin/[ used to be links to the same
executable. These days the executables are in /usr/bin and not linked (don't
know the reason for either...) but they are also shell builtins.
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Les Mikesell
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