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From: "Tyler Littlefield" <compgeek13@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: help with a bash script please
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 17:30:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001901c65b64$64b9e740$6501a8c0@grandmasfury> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060408221656.GB16356@localhost.localdomain>

I am not the best, and haven't looked at bash, but try moving the ! to the 
inside of the parens.
Thanks,
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 4:16 PM
Subject: help with a bash script please


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> Hi all.
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> I'm having trouble with an if statement in a bash script I'm
> writing. What I want to do, is to check if a file doesn't have read
> permission. What I'm doing is:
>
> if !([ -r filename])
>
> However, bash says that the command [-r is not found on line
> number. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, and show me
> how to do what I want to do properly? Thanks in advance.
>
> Greg
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Gregory Nowak
 ` Raul A. Gallegos
 ` Garrett Klein
 ` Lorenzo Taylor
 ` Tyler Littlefield [this message]

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