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doc: Use texinfo for help text of operators. help.cc: Also added help text about block comments, line continuation, and element by element left division. Added more functions on the seealso field of the operators help text.
author Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com>
date Sun, 15 May 2011 07:04:32 -0700
parents 12ff450cbb1f
children
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Like mv $1 $2, but if the files are the same, just delete $1.
# Status is 0 if $2 is changed, 1 otherwise.

if test -r $2; then
  if cmp $1 $2 > /dev/null; then
    echo $2 is unchanged
    rm -f $1
  else
    mv -f $1 $2
  fi
else
  mv -f $1 $2
fi