test

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Examples

Test if a given variable is equal to a given string:

test "{{$MY_VAR}}" = "{{/bin/zsh}}"

Test if a given variable is empty ([z]ero length):

test -z "{{$GIT_BRANCH}}"

Test if a [f]ile exists:

test -f "{{path/to/file_or_directory}}"

Test if a [d]irectory does not exist:

test ! -d "{{path/to/directory}}"

If A is true, then do B, or C in the case of an error (notice that C may run even if A fails):

test {{condition}} && {{echo "true"}} || {{echo "false"}}

Use test in a conditional statement:

if test -f "{{path/to/file}}"; then echo "File exists"; else echo "File does not exist"; fi

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.