On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson writes:
> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> > <h...@debian.org> wrote:
> >> Wouldn't it be more straigthforward to "test -e || mknod" ?
> >
> > I definitely considered that, but it seemed more noisy to the code to
> > add a conditional for every call. But I'd be fine reworking to that
> > approach if that's more acceptable, though.
>
> You can always introduce a `mknod_if_not_exists` function or so. Though
> I'm not sure this is worth here (the name is so long the `test -e` is
> almost shorter).
>
> Ansgar
>
>
function mknod-e () {
[ -e "$1" ] || mknod "$@"
}
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