[ale] A bash question

[Chuck Payne]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> The 2nd is more typical form. The 1st doesn't really work.
>
> What about using a symlink to one dir or the other?
>
>
> On Wednesday 16 September 2009 6:06:53 pm Chuck Payne wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> Sorry I am still a bit of NOOD on programmer and scripting. I have
>> several boxes but a couple aren't SUSE, so iptables in not in
>> /usr/sbin/iptables, I like to set up a VAR called $IPT can I do this,
>> it a bash script...
>>
>> IPT=" if [ -e /sbin/iptables ] ; then
>>               /usr/sbin/iptables
>>               "
>> Or
>>
>> if [ -e /sbin/iptables ] ; then
>>           IPT="/sbin/iptables"
>> else
>>           IPT="/usr/sbin/iptables"
>> fi
>>
>>
>> I am looking for best practise. Thanks.
>
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I have used the second way, I thought there was a way to test and if
it fail, you could use the other without else.

Thanks guys.

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