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# 1  
Old 09-08-2011
Script Help
Hi ,

I am using the below script to check if a file is present if yes I will my next step if no this should return status as 1

Code:
if [[ -s $1 ]] 
then 
echo "File $1 FOUND!" 
exit 0 
fi 
echo "File $1 NOT FOUND" 
exit 1

But when I am executing this with the file present in the unix directory I am getting status as file FOUND and not found

Code:
#sh File_Size.sh test.xml
File_Size.sh[59]: File test.xml FOUND:  not found

And when I am executing with some dummy name it is working correctly.

Code:
#sh File_Size.sh sdjkjkdf
File_Size.sh[62]: File sdjkjkdf NOT FOUND:  not found

My problem is based on the status code I will continue my shell script but due to the incorrect code I am not able to proceed further in my code.

Please tell me where I am doing it wrong.

Regards,Shruthi
# 2  
Old 09-08-2011
Guess there's bug in some other part of the code. Can you post other lines of your code..?
# 3  
Old 09-08-2011
try this ....
you are missing an "Else"
Code:
if [[ -s $1 ]] 
then 
   echo "File $1 FOUND!" 
   exit 0 
else
   echo "File $1 NOT FOUND" 
   exit 1

fi

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# 4  
Old 09-08-2011
I don't see any issue with your code.
Execute the code with -x option like this and see. It will help to identify the issue.
Code:
sh -x File_Size.sh sdjkjkdf

And are you sure the "echo" is in place? Cause it is treating as if the code is missing "echo" and treating "File test.xml FOUND" as a command which it cannot(obviously) find.

--ahamed
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# 5  
Old 09-12-2011
Thanks for the replies, the script is some how not working as expected in our environment. is there any other way I can check if file exists if yes the it's size should be greater than 0 bytes. Based on this I should get a return code this return code I will use in the remaining shell script.
# 6  
Old 09-12-2011
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#Script name : run
#Usage : ./run <file_to_be_checked>
file_to_check=$1
test -s $file_to_check && size=$( stat -c %s $file_to_check ) || size=0
test $size -gt 0 && exit 0 || exit 1


root@bt:/tmp# ls -lrt *empty*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2011-09-13 06:57 emptyfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 2011-09-13 06:57 nonempty
root@bt:/tmp# ./run nonexistant  ;echo $?
1
root@bt:/tmp# ./run emptyfile  ;echo $?
1
root@bt:/tmp# ./run nonempty  ;echo $?
0

--ahamed
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