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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Checking the existence of a file before getting last modified Post 302394688 by LostInTheWoods on Friday 12th of February 2010 08:25:55 AM
Old 02-12-2010
Checking the existence of a file before getting last modified
Hi,

I am trying to check the existence of a file, from a list of possible filenames:

status-A
status-B
status-C

before retrieving the last modified datetime using ls, I want to check it exists or ls will throw an error.

So I have tried this:
Code:
if [ -e status-* ]; then
  ls status-*
fi

But the if statement doesn't seem to accept the asterisk as a wild card. Is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks,
Stephen
 

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show-component-status

asadmin-show-component-status(1AS)				   User Commands				asadmin-show-component-status(1AS)

NAME

       asadmin-show-component-status, show-component-status - displays the status of the deployed component

SYNOPSIS

       show-component-status  --user  admin_user  [--password admin_password] [--host localhost] [--port 4848] [--secure|-s] [--passwordfile file-
       name] [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive] component_name

       show-component-status gets the status of the deployed component. The status is a string representation returned by the server. The possible
       status strings include: enabled or disabled. This command is supported in remote mode only.

OPTIONS

       --user		       authorized domain application server administrative username.

       --password	       password to administer the domain application server.

       --host		       machine name where the domain application server is running.

       --port		       port number of the domain application server listening for administration requests.

       --secure 	       if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server.

       --passwordfile	       file containing the domain application server password.

       --terse		       indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-
			       formatted data for consumption by a script.

       --echo		       setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output.

       --interactive	       prompts you for the required options that are not already specified.

OPERANDS

       component_name	       name of the component to be listed.

       Example 1: Using show-component-status

       asadmin> show-component-status sampleApplication
       Status of sampleApplication is enabled

       Where: the status of the sampleApplication application is shown.

EXIT STATUS

       0		       command executed successfully

       1		       error in executing the command

       asadmin-list-components(1AS), asadmin-list-sub-components(1AS)

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