Commands using test

su www-apache/ftp user and then

check readable: find ~/ -type d \( -wholename '/dev/*' -o -wholename '/sys/*' -o -wholename '/proc/*' \) -prune -o -exec test -r {} \; -exec echo {} readable \; 2>/dev/null

check writable: find ~/ -type d \( -wholename '/dev/*' -o -wholename '/sys/*' -o -wholename '/proc/*' \) -prune -o -exec test -w {} \; -exec echo {} writable \; 2>/dev/null

This command is adapted from http://otomaton.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/find-broken-symbolic-links/

Solutions with

don't work when the link is a loop, an error message is printed.

allows command to use switches

Applies each file operator using the built-in test.

/home/askapache/.sq

-a True - file exists.

-d True - file is a directory.

-e True - file exists.

-r True - file is readable by you.

-s True - file exists and is not empty.

-w True - the file is writable by you.

-x True - the file is executable by you.

-O True - the file is effectively owned by you.

-G True - the file is effectively owned by your group.

-N True - the file has been modified since it was last read.

Full Function:

testt ()

{

local dp;

until [ -z "${1:-}" ]; do

dp="$1";

[[ ! -a "$1" ]] && dp="$PWD/$dp";

command ls -w $((${COLUMNS:-80}-20)) -lA --color=tty -d "$dp";

[[ -d "$dp" ]] && find "$dp" -mount -depth -wholename "$dp" -printf '%.5m %10M %#15s %#9u %-9g %#5U %-5G %Am/%Ad/%AY %Cm/%Cd/%CY %Tm/%Td/%TY [%Y] %p\n' -a -quit 2> /dev/null;

for f in a b c d e f g h L k p r s S t u w x O G N;

do

test -$f "$dp" && help test | sed "/-$f F/!d" | sed -e 's#^[\t ]*-\([a-zA-Z]\{1\}\) F[A-Z]*[\t ]* True if#-\1 "'$dp'" #g';

done;

shift;

done

}

Got the idea from there http://fixunix.com/questions/15902-bash-checking-if-env-var-set.html

find broken symbolic links

Can be used to test error handling

this avoids several VIM warnings, which I seem too stupid to disable: warning, readonly! and: file and buffer have changed, reload?!

The simplest way to do it.

Works for me, at least. (Why are the variables being set?)

Revised approach to and3k's version, using pipes and read rather than command substitution. This does not require fiddling with IFS when paths have whitespace, and does not risk hitting command-line size limits.

It's less verbose on the missing files, but it stops iterating at the first file that's missing, so it should be definitely faster.

I expanded all the qlist options to be more self-describing.

This loops through all installed ebuilds and checks if every file that should be installed is still there and if not adds it to emerge. It includes a verbose output to stderr too.

If you have packages installed that have whitespace in their filenames you have to change the IFS to "newline".

Oddly, the isatty(3) glibc C call doesn't have a direct analogue as a command 'isatty(1)'. All is not lost as you can use test(1).

For example, your script might be run from a tty or from a GUI menu item but it needs to get user-input or give feedback. Now your script can test STDIN with 'isatty 0' or STDOUT with 'isatty 1' and use xmessage(1) if the tty is not available.

The other way to test for this is with 'tty -s' - but that's only for STDIN.

You can use -e to pass multiple patterns.

I often need to know of my directory in the PATH, which one DOES NOT exist. This command answers that question

* This command uses only bash's built-in commands

* The parentheses spawn a new sub shell to prevent the modification of the IFS (input field separator) variable in the current shell

#Usage: watch timeinsecond "command"

I often use "vim -p" to open in tabs rather than buffers.

Found in comments section works on most Linux flavors.

I am using .bat commands to execute Curl commands for Twitter API

Locate broken symlinks in the current directory. Also useful, to remove broken links: