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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to check file exists Post 302550671 by ch33ry on Friday 26th of August 2011 05:03:01 PM
Old 08-26-2011
Script to check file exists
Hi,

I am trying to write a script which checks if any file exists with "*.log" or "*.out" in Directory

below is the code
Code:
#------------------
path=/abd/xyz/
if [ -f "$path *.log -o *.out" ]; then
echo "Good"
else
echo "Failure"
fi
#--------------------------

its always going to else part and printing "Failure" even for TRUE condition.

Can anyone correct me where i am wrong.

Thanks in Advance.
Last edited by DukeNuke2; 08-26-2011 at 07:09 PM..
 

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TGET(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   TGET(1)

NAME

       tget - get termcap values

SYNOPSIS

       tget [-flag id] [-num id] [-str id] [-goto col line] [[-echo] string]

DESCRIPTION

       Tget  allows  shell  scripts access to the termcap(3) functions.  Flags, numbers and strings can be queried from the termcap database under
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SEE ALSO

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