[Gloucs] What's wrong with this code?

[Nick]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:33:27PM +0100, Glyn Davies wrote:
> No prizes for getting the answer right as I've found it and feel free to 
> spot the problem immediately and make me look a fool.
> 
> What's wrong with this line of code. Okay, other than it being a rubbish 
> way of testing that your gateway is available?
> 
> if [ "$(ping -c 1 192.168.1.200 | grep '1 received')" != "" ]

Well it'd be slightly nicer to use something like:

if [ -n "$(ping -c 1 192.168.1.200 | grep '1 received')" ]

which would use test's inbuilt "is string zero" function.

I'm not sure why it isn't working, though. Not in the mood for
debugging bash (still counts as debugging, right? even if only one
line? yeah ;))

Hi GlosLUG, btw. I live in Winchcombe, but attend university far
away. Back for the summer though, so will try to attend a few meets
before it's through. Weather permitting, of course ;)

-Nick

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