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Re: How to conduct common file tests in elisp
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Harry Putnam |
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Re: How to conduct common file tests in elisp |
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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:59:56 -0600 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
>> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:17:21 -0600
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>> I'm attempting to look up in the elisp manual how to conduct a
>> standard file test.
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> What is a "standard file test"?
The few languages or almost languages like shell scripting, awk, perl
and python have some way to test the properties of files.
I gave several examples of what I was after:
> like -f file, -d directory, -r file, -x file etc etc.
Standard shell, perl, python tests all based on bourne shell I guess.