can't TEST multiple arguments for a file

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,
I'm new to scripting and teaching myself how to code. Using Korn, I coded this one return "True" if a file is executable and it's not empty. However, each time I pass a file that is 777 which contains data, the script returns "false".

if [ -x -a ! -s "$1" ]

then
echo "true"
else
echo "false"

fi

By the way..
I was successful using AND when validating strings instead of a file

What am I missing?

2

I think you want:

if  [[ -x  "$1" && -s "$1" ]] ; then
    echo "true"
else
    echo "false"
fi
3

Makes sense to me and works fine.

Thank you, Jim!