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Coyote1967
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Deciphering lines of code
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Hey everyone I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question but I am trying to learn what different lines of code do and I need some help. I am looking at the Save command specifically. It was written to save files and back then up to a directory for later backup usage. The problem that I am having is in the first part of the code. For instance on this line
if [! -d $1];then echo $1 is not a directory; exit 1; fi
I know the fi means that the line is finished and the echo is a command to run the $1 file but what is the first part? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
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21 May 09
Hey everyone I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question but I am trying to learn what different lines of code do and I need some help. I am looking at the Save command specifically. It was written to save files and back then up to a directory for later backup usage. The problem that I am having is in the first part of the code. For instance on this line
if [! -d $1];then echo $1 is not a directory; exit 1; fi
I know the fi means that the line is finished and the echo is a command to run the $1 file but what is the first part? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks