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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to check to see if a file exists? Post 302575137 by astropi on Sunday 20th of November 2011 05:01:52 PM
Old 11-20-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
Try:
Code:
if [ ! -f file ]; then
echo "/path/.../" >> bad.txt
fi

Thank you, that works!
One slight problem however. When I run the code from the parent directory, and say: (edited to be more specific)

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

cd /path/
if [ ! -f file ]; then
echo "/path/" >> bad.txt
fi

I get no output. It appears that for some reason it's not changing to the directory and running the if statement, but rather running the if statement in the parent directory. How would I go about fixing this?

---------- Post updated at 05:01 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:52 PM ----------

Never mind, figured it out Smilie
Last edited by astropi; 11-20-2011 at 06:00 PM.. Reason: specific
 

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