OpenSSH 3.7 testing (Re: 3.6p1 bug on SCO OpenServer)

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Mon Sep 15 23:47:01 EST 2003


Hi,

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:30:10AM +0200, Thomas Binder wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:50:00PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > > +       if [ -e regress/Makefile ]; then \
> > >              ^^
> > > -e is not portable.
> > 
> > Oops.  Is there a portable equivalent?
> 
> I usually use
> 
> if ls file-to-test >/dev/null 2>&1
> then
> 	[...]
> fi

if [ -f ... ] ; then \
   ...;   \
fi

should be reasonably portable.  That is, it works on SCO 3.2v4.2.

gert
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