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Old 12-02-2010
Test for existence of files
Hello,
Can you please help me to see if log files exist in a directory?
I need to scan logs in different directories, so I am using an array to change dynamically.
I need help in the if [ ........*.log........... ] test statement
Code:
dir[1]=/logs/MSD
dir[2]=/logs/UPD
countA=1
while (( countA <= ${#dir[*]} ))
do
   cd ${dir[countA]}
   if [.............]
   then
      echo NO LOGS FOUND
   else
      grep ORA *.log | uniq
fi
((countA +=1))
done

Thank you in advance
Last edited by vbe; 12-02-2010 at 09:42 AM.. Reason: code tags please
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Old 12-02-2010
Code:
if [ -f *.log ]

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