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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Checking the existence of a file.. Post 302121198 by igandu on Tuesday 12th of June 2007 11:13:27 AM
Old 06-12-2007
Checking the existence of a file..

Hi,

I am trying to check for the existence of a file using the 'test' and the file existence options.
When trying to check for a file with a space in between e.g 'Team List', it gives the following error.

learn1: line 3: test: `Team: binary operator expected

I am pasting my code below as well:

echo "Please enter a file name"
read fname
if test -f $fname
then
echo "$fname exists"
else
echo "$fname doesnot exist"
fi


Can someone help me with this...

Regards,
Indra
 

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