Re: Determing if pipe exists

[Russell Van Tassell]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 02:24:50PM -0500, Brendan Strejcek wrote:
> 
> This is what I would do:
> 
>     classes:
>         is_pipe = (
>             ReturnsZero(/bin/sh -c '
>                 /bin/ls -l /path/to/pipe | /bin/grep ^p >/dev/null 2>&1
>             ')
>         )

What about something like...

     classes:
         is_pipe = (
             ReturnsZero(/bin/sh -c '
                 /bin/test -p /path/to/pipe
             ')
         )

...perhaps a bit cleaner.



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