Programming Tutorials

Check if file exists in Shell Script

By: Vivek G  

This shell script demonstrates to check if the given file exists or not.

 if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
    echo "Usage - $0  file-name"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -f $1 ]
then
    echo "$1 file exist"
else
    echo "Sorry, $1 file does not exist"
fi

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