[wplug] Stupid BASH Question

[William Powell]

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Bill

>On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 10:50, Wise, Jeremey wrote:
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>>Ok, I thought this was going to be a simple thing. All I want to do is check
>>if a file exists. If it does then do the command, otherwise do something
>>else. I thought the syntax was similar to the if [ ! -d /directory ] but a
>>-z .... apparently not:>) Man bash yield no clue... as I thought that is
>>where I got the -z idea.
>>
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>>[root at toybox backup]# cat test.scp
>>#! /bin/bash
>>if [ -z /etc/fstab ] ; then
>>   printf "File /etc/fstab exists" ;else
>>   printf "File Missing"
>>fi
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>>This only prints out "File Missing" but obviously /etc/fstab does exist.
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