Anyone know whta the -a does in this snippet?

[alan147]

Hello

We have a .profile on our RS 6000 that forces most users to go to a menu when they log in but allows certain users to go to a prompt. This is done with an if statement, it checks wheteher the user is, in the case of the sample below, qa. If they are qa the go to a prompt if not to a menu. My question is what does the -a do in the script?

! "`logname`%" = "qa%" -a \


Thanks

Alan

 

[dickiebird]

Let's have the preceding & following line or two, too Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[alan147]

Dickie

The if statement looks like this:

if [ ! "`logname`%" = "act%" -a ! "`logname`%" = "qa%" -a ! "`logname`%" = "live%" ]
then
TMOUT=7200
export TMOUT
exec act
exit
fi

Alan

 

[dickiebird]

It means 'and' !
The / is a line continuation
so the statement could be :
if [ ! "`logname`%" = "act%" -a ! "`logname`%" = "qa%" -a ! "`logname`%" = "live%" ]
ie if not like act and not like qa and not like live then do whatever.

Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[alan147]

Thanks

Alan