Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 08:36:11AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > >>But for things like -r "file" && open(FH, "file") they are of rather >>dubious value. > > Well, I have some scripts that check at the start whether all the > things they going to need are readable/executable/whatever, so that they > can (mostly) bomb out right at the start rather than failing halfway > through and leaving a mess.
That is more like the case "checking a set of files against some predefined set of properties" than the above more "immediate" testing. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
