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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting If statement Post 302076922 by dreams5617 on Friday 16th of June 2006 03:34:40 PM
Old 06-16-2006
Error If statement

Hi,

I have a statement in shell script which i am writing below:

if [[ -a $OUTFILE ]]
then
.....

What is the meaning of -a option in files, meaning of the statement in the if condition [[ -a $OUTFILE ]] means.

Thanks
 

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