Sponsored Content
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check for a file and touch if not exist Post 302770236 by elixir_sinari on Friday 15th of February 2013 12:48:24 AM
Old 02-15-2013
Just
Code:
touch filename

.
If filename exists, only its modification and access times will be changed. Data will remain the same.
If filename does not exist, a zero-byte file will be created with the current time as the access and modification time.

And if you don't want to modify the access and modification times when the file (a regular file) exists, try:
Code:
[[ -f filename ]] || touch filename

.

Last edited by elixir_sinari; 02-15-2013 at 02:10 AM..
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to check if the file exist or not?

say i would like to check if the file is existed before i use rm command. How can i do it? i know if i can use find, but i would like to have a good interface (in a shell script) thks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gusla
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to check if directory/file exist using c/c++

Hi there,, how to check if directory/file exist using c/c++ under unix/linux? I can use access() under Window MFC. Thanks. Steven (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: steven88
1 Replies

3. Programming

how to check if directory/file exist using c/c++

Hi there, how to check if directory/file exist using c/c++ under linux/unix. Thanks. Steven (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: steven88
2 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Check Word if exist on file or not

Hello, I want to check if some word exist or not on some file By Example : word is : nixcraft file called : /root/shell.txt and i want to check if nixcraft word exist on /root/shell.txt file with if statement or another tool Any Ideas (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: LinuxCommandos
5 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Check if file exist

Hi Does anybody know how I can check if a file exists i.e. see bellow, this doesn't work by the way and if tried countless variations on this file1=$one/file111.txt if then echo "Present" else echo "Not present" fi result : Not present (file is already present, eventhough its... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: gksenthilkumar
3 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Check file exist issue

I have created two scripts, one with hardcoded and another one with extract from file instead of hardcoded, script:1 -------- #!/bin/ksh filename="$one/file1.dat" if then echo "$filename has arrived." >> $logfile else echo "$filename has NOT yet arrived." >> $logfile fi :> Result:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: gksenthilkumar
4 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Check if file exist

Hi, I am trying to create a bash script which will check if file exist then remove that file else do nothing. I have to do same process for three files in same script. I have written code for one file and trying to run it. if then rm -r /user1/abc/File1 fi When I run this code it... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: palak08
1 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Check if file exist

Hi, I created following script to check if file exist: #!/bin/bash SrcDir=$1 SrcFileName=$2 SrcTimePeriod=$3 if ;then echo 1 else echo 0 fi I ran it like: /apps/Scripts/FileExist.sh /apps/Inbox file1 2nd_period_2010 Even file exist at that location, my above command is... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: palak08
4 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to check file exist in a directory or not

HI folks, can any one tell me how to check whether the file is existed in a directory or not . let me tell you my requirement : if the file is existed i should display a one message or else i have to send a mail .. i have the mail logic .. but I'm failed to check file existence .. please... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sravan008
5 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Shell script to check files if exist else touch the file

Hi All, Thanks in Advance I wrote the following code if then echo "version is 1.1" for i in "subscriber promplan mapping dedicatedaccount faflistSub faflistAcc accumulator pam_account" do FILE="SDP_DUMP_$i.csv" echo "$FILE" ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: aealexanderraj
5 Replies
UTIME(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  UTIME(2)

NAME
utime, utimes - change access and/or modification times of an inode SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <utime.h> int utime(const char *filename, struct utimbuf *buf); #include <sys/time.h> int utimes(char *filename, struct timeval *tvp); DESCRIPTION
utime changes the access and modification times of the inode specified by filename to the actime and modtime fields of buf respectively. If buf is NULL, then the access and modification times of the file are set to the current time. The utimbuf structure is: struct utimbuf { time_t actime; /* access time */ time_t modtime; /* modification time */ }; In the Linux DLL 4.4.1 libraries, utimes is just a wrapper for utime: tvp[0].tv_sec is actime, and tvp[1].tv_sec is modtime. The timeval structure is: struct timeval { long tv_sec; /* seconds */ long tv_usec; /* microseconds */ }; RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS
Other errors may occur. EACCES Permission to write the file is denied. ENOENT filename does not exist. CONFORMING TO
utime: SVr4, SVID, POSIX. SVr4 documents additional error conditions EFAULT, EINTR, ELOOP, EMULTIHOP, ENAMETOOLONG, ENOLINK, ENOTDIR, ENO- LINK, ENOTDIR, EPERM, EROFS. utimes: BSD 4.3 SEE ALSO
stat(2) Linux 1995-06-10 UTIME(2)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 09:59 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy