Determine if a file is readable by current Bourne shell script user
Contributed by Rex 
Tagged: Bourne shell scripting A well contructed shell script, like any good program, should handle error conditions gracefully. Checking if a file is readable before attempting to read it allows a script to branch instead of abort or display an error message.
if [ -r testfile ]
then
cat testfile
else
echo file is not readable
fi
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