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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Have a shell script check for a file to exist before processing another file Post 302096083 by heprox on Monday 13th of November 2006 10:33:51 PM
Old 11-13-2006
You lost me....

Forgive my ignorance, so how would bracketing the "-a" work?

Code:
[[ -a /gers/genret/tmp/poll_$fileExtension.txt  ]] && continue

...it would check for the file "poll_" and if it found it stop there and move onto the next file? I'm confused how this works?
 

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