Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> writes: > > I did more edits to the netman-gui.postinst script as follows: > > -------------------- > 2) db_get netman-gui/netman-autostart > if [ "$RET" = "true" ]; then > file="/etc/xdg/autostart/netman.desktop"; > cp /usr/share/applications/netman.desktop > /etc/xdg/autostart/ > else > if [ -f "/etc/xdg/autostart/netman.desktop" ]; then > rm /etc/xdg/autostart/netman.desktop > fi > fi > ;; > -------------------- > > However, using dpkg-reconfiguer netman-gui I get the error: > > root@edbarx-pc:/home/edbarx# dpkg-reconfigure netman-gui > /var/lib/dpkg/info/netman-gui.postinst: 24: > /var/lib/dpkg/info/netman-gui.postinst: [-f: not found
The shell starts parsing something with splitting on unquoted whitespace in order to turn the input into a sequence of 'words'. This means if there's no whitespace between [ and -f, this won't end up invoking the [ with an argument of -f but as [-f. Since the shell doesn't know anything about that, it will try to run a program named [-f (which doesn't exist). The test can be omitted by using rm -f ... instead. Attempts to remove a file which doesn't exist then won't cause rm to exist with an error status. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
