help with a bash script please

[Tyler Littlefield]

I am not the best, and haven't looked at bash, but try moving the ! to the 
inside of the parens.
Thanks,
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
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Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 4:16 PM
Subject: help with a bash script please


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> Hi all.
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> 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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