On 8/9/14, 7:07 AM, Steve Simmons wrote:
> Advance apologies if this has already been discussed and rejected.
It hasn't.
> It would be nice to have ganged file test switches. As an example, to test
> that a directory exists and is properly accessible one could do
>
> if [[ -d foo ]] && [[ -r foo ]] && [[ -x foo ]] ; then . . .
>
> but
>
> if [[ -drx foo ]] ; then . . .
>
> is a lot easier.
Sure, but it's only syntactic sugar.
Chet
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