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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [ ! -e a.log ] & [ ! -f a.log ] difference b/w these two Post 302269762 by himvat on Thursday 18th of December 2008 02:56:40 PM
Old 12-18-2008
[ ! -e a.log ] & [ ! -f a.log ] difference b/w these two
Code:
if [ ! -e a.log ]; then
        touch a.log
fi

...................................

if [ ! -f a.log ]; then
        touch a.log
fi

Hi ,

Are the above two meant for same purpose i.e finding & creating a.log ?

I would really appreciate if you could explain the purpose of " ! " & " -f "
in these .

thanks
 

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svcdumplog

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NAME

       svcdumplog - Prints contents of a binary serviceability log file

SYNOPSIS

       svcdumplog [-s num_of_entries] logfile

OPTIONS

       The -s flag tells svcdumplog to skip the first num_of_entries log entries before printing, where num_of_entries is a number.

DESCRIPTION

       The svcdumplog program will print the contents of a binary log file.

       DCE  components	log  important	information about their activities and state via the DCE serviceability interface. The log messages can be
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       written as a binary record of data defined (in dce/svclog.h) as the contents of the serviceability prolog structure. The svcdumplog utility
       will print the contents of such a binary log file as readable text.

RELATED INFORMATION

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