Re: [LIP] want to test presence of file
Sandip Bhattacharya <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers |
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| 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 -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * sandip-/[email protected] Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click