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Old 06-22-2005
Simerian Simerian is offline
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yeah..., that is the continuation marker.

You can type:

if [[ -f filename]] then [ENTER]
echo "File exists" [ENTER]
else [ENTER]
echo "File does NOT exist" [ENTER]
endif [ENTER]

...and it should respond accordingly
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