bash programming: testing for empty string

Hi, I'm trying to find the time of a file by doing this. filetime=`ls -l --time-style=+%a:%H:%M /tmp/1.txt | awk '{print $6}'` if [ -z "$filetime"]; then echo "File does not exist" else echo "Time file: $filetime" fi However, when the file does not exist and filetime returns an empty string,

Re: Open Documents in the same XEmacs window

Thanks, winclient is exactly what I wanted. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/2/20, bootleg86 bootleg86 : > > > > Hi, > > > > I installed the Windows binaries for XEmacs, rather than using the > > cygwin ver

Open Documents in the same XEmacs window

Hi, I installed the Windows binaries for XEmacs, rather than using the cygwin version. So I'm not too sure if this is the right place to ask this question. I created a shortcut to xemacs.exe in my SendTo folder. I then select a document, right-click and then SendTo -> XEmacs. But this opens up a

Re: Creating user in "Documents and Settings" on all networked machines

. On Feb 5, 2008 12:35 PM, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05 February 2008 17:18, bootleg86 bootleg86 wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Would it be possible to create a user folder in "Documents and > > Settings" even if I have not logged on to the mac

Creating user in "Documents and Settings" on all networked machines

Hi, Would it be possible to create a user folder in "Documents and Settings" even if I have not logged on to the machine I was thinking something along the line for i in `seq -w 1 10`; do cd //machine${i}/c$/Documents and Settings/; mkdir username; done What I want to do is to populate the user