Comments on: Determine if file exists in a Bourne/bash shell script

By: dish

dish — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:26:51 +0000

Well, I've found the solution:

for *.gz
do
my_command
done

By: dish

dish — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:47:07 +0000

And what to do if I have several files smth.gz but I don't know how much and I don't know actual names.
I need to run some command if one of such files exists.

By: Third Rook

Third Rook — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:56:45 +0000

Regardless what the man page says. -f didn't work in my script, and -e did.

Thanks ayw.

By: Joeblackspirit

Joeblackspirit — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:15:43 +0000

Perfect and simple!!

By: David

David — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:35:39 +0000

No. From the man page: ” -f filename
True if filename exists and is a regular file.”"

By: iGuide

iGuide — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:49:32 +0000

Shouldn't that one have some brackets or something?

By: ayw

ayw — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:30:59 +0000

if [ -e testfile ]; tests whether a file exists.

if [ -f testfile ]; only tests whether file is a regular file

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:01:02 +0000

I don't think you're using it quite right Young Padawan

By: James

James — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:33:58 +0000

total crap, it doesn't actually test if the file is there or not, it just tests if the command line argument is there. There's a giant f*cking differences.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:59:09 +0000

if [ -f testfile ];
then
echo Blablabla
fi