On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:55:40AM +0000, David Lee wrote: > None of the Solaris "test(1*)" have the "-e" option (although it is there > in the csh built-in test). Same probably applies to the much of the rest > of the UNIX world outside Linux. > > I think "-r" is an appropriate substitute. (It works both from a clean > distribution, and also after a "make clean"; that should cover all cases > but the most pathological.) This is not quite true. I *think* that /bin/test is quite portable. (/bin -> /usr/bin in Solaris)... % /bin/test -e /foo && echo yes || echo no no % /bin/test -e /tmp && echo yes || echo no yes Not that this really matters, but /usr/xpg4/bin/sh works much more like /bin/sh on other platforms. That is, it is really ksh. Mike
