On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:46:38AM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: [...] > > So, how about this: > > > > rm -rf $unittest_log_dir.old || err "Failed remove old logs" > > if [[ -d $unittest_log_dir ]]; then > > Only [ ... ] for tests like these I thought [[ ... ]] would be superior to [ ... ] if we are not considering the POSIX compatibility issue? Hmm, after a quick grep, I see that kvm-unit-tests repo is using [[ ... ]] only if doing any kind of pattern/regex matching, right? If so, I'll just follow. ;-) > > > mv $unittest_log_dir $unittest_log_dir.old || > > err "Failed backup logs" > > fi > > mkdir $unittest_log_dir || err "Failed to create log dir" > > > > And define err() in common.bash: > > > > function err() > > { > > echo "$@" > > exit 1 > > } > > The above is mostly just translating rm/mv/mkdir stderr messages to > new messages. We can do it much more simply like > > rm -rf logs.old > [ -d logs ] && mv logs logs.old > mkdir logs || exit 2 Okay I'll use this. Thanks! -- peterx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html