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It's just a matter of checking for the existence of the file and checking the status of that test.

if [ -f $MYHOME/jay.txt ]
then
xxxxxxxx
fi

if [ $? != 0 ]
then
error message ...

Hello Porter,
Not gibberish at all. We use ftp commands in Unix shell scripts for several outside vendors and have just the logon information in the .netrc file. Typically we deal with actual file...

An outside vendor has staged 2 batch files for us and I've tried to retrieve the files using the commands that they've indicated I could use to retrieve one file at a time. I've tried using this...

Well, I'm constantly learning that there's multiple ways of doing things in the Unix world! I removed the 'cat' code from my script and ran it again redirecting the output to the new file name and it...

You put me on the right track. I ended up using sed and successfully stripped off the ^Z at the end of the file by using:

sed '/^Z/d' myfile|cat > newfile

Thanks for the help.

Hi,
First time on the forum. I have converted some files using the Unix to DOS command but need to strip off the last record that is generated from this conversion that contains just a ^Z. Is there...