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Old 05-23-2008
abhisek.says abhisek.says is offline
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Smile checking for file existence first
Hi,

First yo chech for the file existence and then

FLAG=0;
while read file
do
FLAG =1;
done < input_file
echo "$FLAG"

I think this should work...