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# 1  
Old 02-03-2006
Test for file
I have a script that performs certains functions is a file exists in the specified directory:

if [ -s $DATA_DIR/test.das ]
then

How can you do the reverse of this, basically an "if file does not exist"?

dstins
# 2  
Old 02-03-2006
Do this
if [ ! -s $DATA_DIR/test.das ]
then
# 3  
Old 02-03-2006
That worked...thanks for the quick reply!!
# 4  
Old 02-03-2006
Code:
if ! test -f "file1"
then
   echo "file does not exist"
else
   echo "files does exist"
fi

# 5  
Old 02-03-2006
Thanks...where can I find out more about the flags? I noticed bhargav used -f instead of -s...
# 6  
Old 02-03-2006
Try the command 'man test'
# 7  
Old 02-03-2006
Ah...thank you.
 
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