something like this?
% xxx=`{echo test '-e '^$pathnames^' -o' 1 '!=' 1}
% $xxx
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:31 PM dexen deVries
wrote:
> given
> pathnames = ( foo/a.txt bar/b.txt baz/c.txt )
>
> how do i construct arguments to test(1) that test for existence of
> those files in one go?
>
> wanted
given
pathnames = ( foo/a.txt bar/b.txt baz/c.txt )
how do i construct arguments to test(1) that test for existence of
those files in one go?
wanted:
test -e foo/a.txt -o -e bar/b.txt -o -e baz/c.txt
assuming the pathnames may contain space characters.
