if_existing functionality

[plikhari]

if_existing does not work if you have an executable line - here template5 and template7 are files - cat will execute and create the test file even if ${template5} file does not exist.

${if_existing ${template5}}${execpi 11 cat ${template7} > /tmp/test }${endif}

However if I do not output to the test file ( > /tmp/test part removed )- it does not show on the conky output and works fine.

The point being - why is ${if_existing} reaching cat if the ${template5} file does not exist - should it not jump to the next statement after ${endif} ???

[plikhari]

OK figure it out ;-)
The above functionality as per design is correct !

But what if one needs to check for an existence of a file - then following works
${texecpi 10 if [ -s ${template1} ]; then do something here; fi }

[lasers]

Sounds like you ran into this bug #334. EDIT: I see you raised here... Smh.