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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers testing if files exist Post 302190878 by shalua on Wednesday 30th of April 2008 05:48:35 PM
Old 04-30-2008
How to check if a file exists

I need to check following three things:

a) a file exists but is zero byte
b) a file exists with non-zero bytes
c) a file doesn't exist at all

What switches do we use? Is it -f, -s, -z. Please explain the difference in these!

Many Thanks
Shalua
 

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MEMCACHED_EXIST(3)						   libmemcached 						MEMCACHED_EXIST(3)

NAME
memcached_exist - libmemcached Documentation SYNOPSIS
#include <libmemcached/memcached.h> memcached_return_t memcached_exist(memcached_st *ptr, char *key, size_t *key_length) memcached_return_t memcached_exist_by_key(memcached_st *ptr, char *group_key, size_t *group_key_length, char *key, size_t *key_length) New in version 0.53. Compile and link with -lmemcached DESCRIPTION
memcached_exist() can be used to check to see if a key exists. No value is returned if the key exists, or does not exist, on the server. RETURN
memcached_exist() sets error to to MEMCACHED_SUCCESS upon finding that the key exists. MEMCACHED_NOTFOUND will be return if the key is not found. HOME
To find out more information please check: http://libmemcached.org/ SEE ALSO
memcached(1) libmemcached(3) memcached_strerror(3) AUTHOR
Brian Aker COPYRIGHT
2011-2013, Brian Aker DataDifferential, http://datadifferential.com/ 1.0.16 January 31, 2013 MEMCACHED_EXIST(3)
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