Re: [LIP] want to test presence of file

> I am making a command line tool which accept a argument  that is a file name....
> I want to check whether the file present or not (How can I check in
> Shell programming?)

Method 1:
    #!/bin/sh
    if test -e $1
    then
       echo "$1 exists."
    else
       echo "$1 does not exist."
    fi

Method 2:
    #!/bin/sh
    [ -e $1 ] && echo "$1 exists" || echo "$1 does not exist"

To know more, 'man test'.

-- 
Chandrashekar Babu
http://www.chandrashekar.info/



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