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11-13-2006

heprox

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You lost me....

Forgive my ignorance, so how would bracketing the "-a" work?

Code:

[[ -a /gers/genret/tmp/poll_$fileExtension.txt  ]] && continue

...it would check for the file "poll_" and if it found it stop there and move onto the next file? I'm confused how this works?