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["Ben Eisenbraun" <user=82@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:55:36PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: 
> Which can be further simplified to: 
> 
> if ls *.zip >/dev/null 2>&1; then 

That's probably more elegant on some level than my $?.  Derek's test of the 
ls exit status embedded in the if statement jogged my memory for another 
method: 

ls *.zip > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo 'zips!' || echo 'zippo!' 

There ends up being a tradeoff between brevity and legibility at some 
point, but I don't think we've hit it yet.  Anyone got a shorter one? 

:-) 

-b 

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