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Re: Determing if pipe exists
From: |
Russell Van Tassell |
Subject: |
Re: Determing if pipe exists |
Date: |
Thu, 5 May 2005 15:22:43 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 02:24:50PM -0500, Brendan Strejcek wrote:
>
> This is what I would do:
>
> classes:
> is_pipe = (
> ReturnsZero(/bin/sh -c '
> /bin/ls -l /path/to/pipe | /bin/grep ^p >/dev/null 2>&1
> ')
> )
What about something like...
classes:
is_pipe = (
ReturnsZero(/bin/sh -c '
/bin/test -p /path/to/pipe
')
)
...perhaps a bit cleaner.
--
Russell M. Van Tassell
russell@loosenut.com
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