Stephan Witt wrote:
> Andreas Vox wrote:
>> Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>
>>>>what about [ `dirname "$1"` -ef `dirname "$2"` ] ?
>>>
>>>"test -e FOO" is a bash extension.
>>>Also, "dirname" does nothing more than strip everything after the final
>>>'/' character. "/foo/bar/../baz.cpp" and "/foo/baz.cpp" will appear to
>>>be in different directories.
>>
>>
>> Correct for dirname, but -ef as well as cd+pwd will use the true
>> directory.
>>
>> Also I found '-ef' documented in the man page for ksh (SunOS 5.8) and
>> BSD test, so I think it should be available on most platforms.
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> yes, on Solaris it's available for ksh - but not for sh.
> (The standard shell for scripting and used by make.)
> So it's not true to say it's available for all (or most) platforms.
I think we're getting a little too involved with generics here, given that
this script is to be used to move .fig files into the temp directory only.
I think that the test below should do the job and should be portable.
PRESENT_DIR=$PWD
cd `dirname "$1"` || exit $?
FROM_DIR=$PWD
cd `dirname "$2"` || exit $?
TO_DIR=$PWD
cd "$PRESENT_DIR"
test "$FROM_DIR" = "$TO_DIR" && {
# The "to" and "from" files are in the same directory.
cp "$1" "$2"
exit $?
}
--
Angus
