Re: [LIP] want to test presence of file

Sandip Bhattacharya <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers
Organization Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 14:05 +0530, Manish Satwani wrote:
> Hi All, 
> I am doing shell programming 
> 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?)
> 

Use the -f test.

[ -f /usr/share/dict/words ] && echo "'dict words' present"
[ -f /usr/share/dict/words2 ] || echo "'dict words2' not present"

- Sandip

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