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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting File exists, but cannot be opened.How to check- whether it could be opened to read when it exists Post 302638657 by rxg on Thursday 10th of May 2012 01:57:24 PM
Old 05-10-2012
File exists, but cannot be opened.How to check- whether it could be opened to read when it exists

Hi

Code:
#Testing for  file existence 
if [ -f $DIR/SCHOOL_FAC.txt ]; then   
  echo 'SCHOOL data is available for processing'   
else   
  echo 'SCHOOL DATA IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR PROCESSING'  
  :

i wrote a script, where it begins by checking if file exists or not.
If it exists, it truncates the database table and bcp's new data from file into the table.

Now, I had a situtation, where the file exists, but couldnot open,
and since my above statements checks for file existence, the database table is truncated and the table became empty.
When tried to bcp the file...the file couldnot be opened and it failed.

Now the database table lost its old data and since file couldnot be opened, the bcp couldnot load data into the table.

How can i check whether file is readable,so that i can take of truncating the table only when the file is readable and can be opened.

Any answer is appreciated, with respect to my above problem.

Thank You.Smilie
 

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CLUSTERDB(1)						  PostgreSQL Client Applications					      CLUSTERDB(1)

NAME
clusterdb - cluster a PostgreSQL database SYNOPSIS
clusterdb [ connection-options... ] [ --table | -t table ] [ dbname ] clusterdb [ connection-options... ] [ --all | -a ] DESCRIPTION
clusterdb is a utility for reclustering tables in a PostgreSQL database. It finds tables that have previously been clustered, and clusters them again on the same index that was last used. Tables that have never been clustered are not touched. clusterdb is a shell script wrapper around the backend command CLUSTER [cluster(7)] via the PostgreSQL interactive terminal psql(1). There is no effective difference between clustering databases via this or other methods. psql must be found by the script and a database server must be running at the targeted host. Also, any default settings and environment variables available to psql and the libpq front-end library do apply. clusterdb might need to connect several times to the PostgreSQL server, asking for a password each time. It is convenient to have a $HOME/.pgpass file in such cases. OPTIONS
clusterdb accepts the following command-line arguments: -a --all Cluster all databases. [-d] dbname [--dbname] dbname Specifies the name of the database to be clustered. If this is not specified and -a (or --all) is not used, the database name is read from the environment variable PGDATABASE. If that is not set, the user name specified for the connection is used. -e --echo Echo the commands that clusterdb generates and sends to the server. -q --quiet Do not display a response. -t table --table table Clusters table only. clusterdb also accepts the following command-line arguments for connection parameters: -h host --host host Specifies the host name of the machine on which the server is running. If host begins with a slash, it is used as the directory for the Unix domain socket. -p port --port port Specifies the Internet TCP/IP port or local Unix domain socket file extension on which the server is listening for connections. -U username --username username User name to connect as -W --password Force password prompt. DIAGNOSTICS
CLUSTER Everything went well. clusterdb: Cluster failed. Something went wrong. clusterdb is only a wrapper script. See CLUSTER [cluster(7)] and psql(1) for a detailed discussion of error messages and potential problems. Note that this message may appear once per table to be clustered. ENVIRONMENT
PGDATABASE PGHOST PGPORT PGUSER Default connection parameters. EXAMPLES
To cluster the database test: $ clusterdb test To cluster a single table foo in a database named xyzzy: $ clusterdb --table foo xyzzy SEE ALSO
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