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Old 04-17-2008
Question txt files
How can I know if a file contain text or no?

PS: I have to do a script that search for a pattern in text files
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Old 04-17-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver Perhaps take a look at 'man test'
You can try to do:

Code:
> cat checkfile 
#! /bin/bash

if [ -f sample.txt ]
   then
   echo "ordinary file"
fi
if [ -s sample.txt ]
   then 
   echo "non-zero length file"
fi

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