Thread: sh, checknig if file exists
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Old 21st August 2008
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Originally Posted by vermaden View Post
O RLY?
Code:
if [ ! -f file ]; then
  echo "file does not exist"
fi

if [ ! -d dir ]; then
  echo "dir does not exist"
fi
even shorter:

Code:
[ ! -f file ] && echo "file does not exist"
[ ! -d dir ] && echo "dir does not exist"

Here:
http://developer.apple.com/documenta...ShellScripting
http://developer.apple.com/documenta...lScripting.pdf
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
Thanks
I did tried -!f -f!, didn't thought about trying ! -f
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