bash if file exists

[Cole Tuininga]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 22:26 -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> Cole Tuininga wrote:
> > I believe that using "echo" instead, would not have such a problem.
> 
> I don't see why. It still depends on passing an argument, which the 
> shell expands, on the command line.

My (possibly incorrect) thought was that, as "echo" is a shell builtin
(depending on the shell of course), this portion of the command would be
executed within the context of the shell rather than forking off an
external process and trying to pass a list of arguments that was too
long. 

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>> A: Top-posting.        
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Cole Tuininga
colet at code-energy.com
http://www.code-energy.com/



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