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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Loop for file existence Post 97782 by bd_joy on Thursday 2nd of February 2006 11:35:55 AM
Old 02-02-2006
Question Loop for file existence
I wasn't sure if I should post it here of in the Shell Script category, but I figured it was definitely a newbie question.

I'm trying to write a script that will check for the existence of a specific file (or for any files within the directory) and then take specific actions. I've removed all the extra processing in the loop, comments, and variables. I'm just trying to get my basic loop to work.

I did check the FAQ's but I think this is even too basic a question for there. Anyone's assistance with this would be appreciated.


#!/bin/sh

if (test.dat exists in current directory)
then
echo "test.dat exists!" |mail noone@domain.com
else
echo "test.dat does not exist!" |mail noone@domain.com
fi
 

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       Sage  is  a  small  C  library providing Open GL extensions to applications using SDL. It has been automatically generated from the glext.h
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