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i need to test the contents of a file if it exists, and to set a flag
for example

this generates an error if $MYDIR"FLAGFILE" (/home/fred/FLAGFILE in this example) does not exist. even though it shouldn't evaluate the second part of the boolean AND if the first part returns false.
I can do this with two test lines

which works just fine but it obviously makes the script the test/s are in much longer.

Has anyone any hints on making the single liner version work? thanks

This should work

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson

thanks fredrick, that does the trick.

I had forgotten about the && and || binary operators for concatinating tests.
It's a shame that the original attempt doesn't work, i guess bash evaluates the whole test operators before starting to compare