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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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2004-04-15

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MAILPING-STORE(1)						     Mailping							 MAILPING-STORE(1)

NAME
mailping-store - store email from stdin to a mailping incoming maildir SYNOPSIS
mailping-store DESCRIPTION
mailping-store reads an email from standard input and writes it into a maildir chosen according to following logic: 1. If EXTENSION is not set, select Maildir. 2. If EXTENSION is set, ensure its value is safe to use, and select EXTENSION/incoming. mailping-store is usually run from a .forward file, and thus the filenames above are relative to the home directory of the account in question. Normal use Normally, mailping-store is used to ease the setup of new circuits to probe from mailping-cron. This is done with a system account mailping using <mailping@yourhost.example.com> as the from address, and <mailping+circuitname@yourhost.example.com> (or some remote address aliased to that) as the to address. In fact, these are the default values for from and to, so you can just skip creating those configuration files. This allows adding new test circuits without any changes to the email configuration. FILES
/var/lib/mailping/state/circuit/incoming Maildir to store the email to. /var/lib/mailping/state/Maildir/ Maildir to store the email to, if no extension was given. ENVIRONMENT
MAILPING_STATEDIR Override the location of the state directory. Circuit states are stored in the state subdirectory of this directory, in subdirectories named after the circuit name. Default: /var/lib/mailping EXTENSION Name of the current circuit to store the mail for. SEE ALSO
mailping-cron(1), mailping-success(1), mailping-latency(1) AUTHOR
Tommi Virtanen <tv@havoc.fi> Havoc Consulting Author. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004 Havoc Consulting mailping 0. 2004-04-15 MAILPING-STORE(1)
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