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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers help needed with a small shell script! Post 302513520 by methyl on Wednesday 13th of April 2011 12:29:28 PM
Old 04-13-2011
If there are only two filenames:

Code:
for filename in "filename.log.0" "filename.log.1"
do
    if [ ! -f "$[filename}" ]
    then
           touch "${filename}"
   fi
done

 

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