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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Expect : what is the equivalent to ksh if -s Post 302843835 by in2nix4life on Thursday 15th of August 2013 10:04:45 AM
Old 08-15-2013
In Expect you can use "file exists" and/or "file size" to get the status of a file:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f

set filename "/tmp/file"
set file_status [file exists $filename]
if { $file_status > 0 } {
    set retcode [file size $filename]
    puts "$filename exists and is $retcode bytes."
} else {
    puts "$filename not found!"
}

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