question-- Bourne (and C) SHELL (expression evaluation)

[chris]

You can also do:

	( ls foo ) || echo not there

or, more cheaply:

	{ ls foo ; } || echo not there

and if you didn't want to see the output of the ls command,

	{ ls foo >/dev/null 2>&1 ; } || echo not there



Chris
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