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Are you sure it's a curly brace '{', and not a square bracket '['? The square bracket is just an alternative (and quite common) syntax for invoking the command test (1). According to the man page, '-x' checks if a file is executable, '-a' means 'and', '-e' checks if a file exists. So in other words, if the command was actually something like then it would be equivalent to the pseudocode |
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Jabir is correct. To understand the flags using in the statements of a shell script you should read the bash manual, you can find an online version at http://linux.die.net/man/1/bash and search for the sequence that you are questioning. |
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Thanks, that was helpful. |
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try here http://linux.die.net there is more talk about linux script |
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