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All worked as I required -s FILE option was the solution I used in my script and now I am a happy man.

How do I check if a file is empty in a sh script

I want to test in my shell script if the output file is empty and if it is do one thing and if it isnt empty do another?

any ideas?

if you pipe to grep -v what you dont want you will get the desired effect.

ie if you didnt want to see files called foo.c you would grep -v foo.c and get the following output:
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I am trying to write a script to change passwords for the same user on multiple servers.

My environment runs purely ssh / scp not rsh / rcp and therefore coping using rcp is not an option.

I...