help with a bash script please

[Garrett Klein]

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Greg,

	What you're looking for is
if [ !-r filename ]; then
#commands here;
fi

HTH,
Garrett

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 03:16:56PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Hi all.
> 
> I'm having trouble with an if statement in a bash script I'm
> writing. What I want to do, is to check if a file doesn't have read
> permission. What I'm doing is:
> 
> if !([ -r filename])
> 
> However, bash says that the command [-r is not found on line
> number. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, and show me
> how to do what I want to do properly? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Greg
> 
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