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[Andreas Reuleaux]

Hi,

Great! Thanks a lot (and for your other mail as well),
and I learned some bits, indeed at least these:

* to use (:check ... ) - rather than my (unless ...)

* and apparently using just

   (:apply (mrun "cp" ".bashrc" ".bashrc.orig"))

  works (in the remote users home dir) then.
  I would still find it more readable to write

    (:apply (mrun "cp" "~/.bashrc" "~/.bashrc.orig"))

  in some special strings maybe [?] (that know how to resolve "~"),
  but I don't have to make my life any more difficult than necessary,
  writing things like:

     #?"${(get-connattr :remote-home)}.bashrc" 

  etc., if the above works.

And yes, I will read the manual more thoroughly.

Thanks again!
-A



Sean Whitton <spwhitton at spwhitton.name> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed 03 Aug 2022 at 06:07pm +01, Andreas Reuleaux wrote:
>
>> Maybe I have to create (just) a property w/ defprop ? - Just a boolean
>> test, really, if a (remote) file .bashrc.orig exists in a (remote) home
>> directory? How?
>
> Yes, exactly.  Something like
>
> (defprop foo :posix ()
>   (:check (remote-exists-p ".bashrc.orig."))
>   (:apply (mrun "mv" ".bashrc" ".bashrc.orig")))