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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Test command in UNIX Post 302872301 by kmanivan82 on Friday 8th of November 2013 05:39:36 AM
Old 11-08-2013
Test command in UNIX
Hi Team,

Code:
-rwxr-xr-x    1 kmani00  system            9 Nov 08 03:29 tempfile.txt
-rwxrwxrwx    1 kmani00  devgrp            0 Nov 08 03:32 testfile.txt

by exec the following command, i did not get any output.
Code:
> test -s tempfile.txt
> a=`test -s tempfile.txt`
> echo $a

>

by exec the following command, i did not get any output.
Code:
> test -s testfile.txt
> b=`test -s testfile.txt`
> echo $b

>

Not sure how this command works. How can i test the condition.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks
Krishna
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 11-08-2013 at 09:24 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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