Re: [leafnode-list] fetchnews -P with empty queue

[Grahame Cooper <Grahame@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Matthias Andree wrote:
> Grahame Cooper schrieb am Samstag, den 28. Dezember 2002:
>
>
>># If there are articles waiting to be posted, post them
>>if ! [ `ls /var/spool/news/out.going | wc -l` -eq 0 ];then
>>    /usr/local/sbin/fetchnews -P
>>fi
>
>
> This is less portable than:
>
> if [ "x`ls /var/spool/news/out.going | wc -l`" != "x0" ] ; then
>   /usr/local/sbin/fetchnews -P
> fi
>
> Remember to ALWAYS report the leafnode version you're using.
>

Thanks, I'm a total newbie re. bash scripting.

Leafnode 1.9.27 by the way.

Happy New Year

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