Thanks for your reply, based on your suggestion i tried rewriting the code as below but some how i didn't understand why it is executing the statement in the else part even after the condition in the if statement is true or satisfied or pmcmd command getting executed. Could you please throw some light. Thank you.

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#!/bin/ksh
for file in /export/home/orainfodev/sam s ; do
if test -f $file/invoke.txt; then
pmcmd startworkflow -u Administrator -p SADMIN -s odsdbq1:4001 -f IR_Custom WF_Test_Mapping
else
echo "$0: $file/invoke.txt: not found" >&2
#echo "Could not able to find the file, cannot execute the workflow thanks!"
fi
done

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