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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Determine the exist status Post 302807323 by sbk785 on Tuesday 14th of May 2013 01:50:00 PM
Old 05-14-2013
Determine the exist status

Hi,

i am a novice in scrpting and need your help on the following. i have a script that checks if a file exists:
Code:
if [ -f  $path/file1 ] ; then
echo " Files exists"
else 
echo " file not found"
fi

assuming the files does not exist ,, the script when run dusplays " file not found".. so far true. but when i type : echo $? i get output as 0.
shouldnt it say 1 if a condition fails.Smilie if possible can someone plz explain why it shows 0 instead of 1 when a condition has failed.

thanks

Last edited by joeyg; 05-14-2013 at 02:53 PM.. Reason: Please wrap commands and data inside CodeTags
 

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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files... DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. --landscape Landscape output. Default is portrait. --columns=cl Number of columns output. Default is 1. --font=desc Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12. --rtl Do rtl layout. --paper ps Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4. --bottom-margin=bm Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36. --top-margin=tm Set top margin. Default is 36. --left-margin=lm Set left margin. Default is 36. --right-margin=rm Set right margin. Default is 36. --help Show summary of options. --header Draw page header for each page. --markup Interpret the text as pango markup. --encoding=ENCODING Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING. --lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing. --cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size. --stretch-chars Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops behaviour. AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)
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