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Old 07-30-2016
Syntax error near unexpected token `else'

Hello every one!!

I don't know where I am going wrong but I am finding it difficult to clear this error of syntax error near unexpected token `else'

I am writing a simple shell script to find a file in a directory and if found execute that else return an error to the log file

Code:
path=path/of/file
if [ -f "${path}"/file_name ]; then
echo "file found" >> output/file/path
else
echo "file not found" >> output/file/path
fi

Please help me understand where is this script wrong

Thanks




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realpath - Returns canonicalized absolute pathname

SYNOPSIS
string realpath (string $path) DESCRIPTION
realpath(3) expands all symbolic links and resolves references to '/./', '/../' and extra '/' characters in the input $path and returns the canonicalized absolute pathname. PARAMETERS
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Returns the canonicalized absolute pathname on success. The resulting path will have no symbolic link, '/./' or '/../' components. realpath(3) returns FALSE on failure, e.g. if the file does not exist. Note The running script must have executable permissions on all directories in the hierarchy, otherwise realpath(3) will return FALSE. Note Because PHP's integer type is signed and many platforms use 32bit integers, some filesystem functions may return unexpected results for files which are larger than 2GB. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | Prior to this release, if only the last $path | | | component did not exist, realpath(3) would not | | | fail on *BSD systems. realpath(3) now fails in | | | this case. | | | | | 5.2.1 | | | | | | | Prior to this version, realpath(3) returned | | | FALSE if $path is an empty string or NULL. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
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basename(3), dirname(3), pathinfo(3). PHP Documentation Group REALPATH(3)
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