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Re: bash if file exists



 On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:41:14PM -0400, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: 
> And in the spirit of "there's more than one way to do it", here's a 
> variation on Derek's method: 
> 
> ls *.zip > /dev/null 2>&1 
> if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then 
>   echo "there is a zip" 
> else 
>   echo "zippo" 
> fi 

Which can be further simplified to: 

if ls *.zip >/dev/null 2>&1; then 
  echo yes 
else 
  echo no 
fi 

=8^) 


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