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Name: CM
Date: August 28, 2002 at 07:52:39 Pacific
Subject: shell script to check for a file on

Comment:

Hi,
I'm trying to create a shell script to check for the existence of a file on an NT box prior to an FTP process. If it doesn't exist then the process sleeps. Can anyone help? Thanks.
Cherian

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Response Number 1

Name: Jerry Lemieux
Date: August 28, 2002 at 13:11:01 Pacific
Subject: shell script to check for a file on

Reply: (edit)

This is a unix forum, not an NT forum. On Unix, it would be a simple matter of including the following in your script:
if [ -f $filename ]
then
ftp the file
else
print "Da file ain't there"
fi
$filename is a variable that holds the name of some file. You can also hardcode it if the file name is always the same. On NT, don't you have to write a batch file with the "if exists" syntax or something like that? I try and stay away from "Billyware" as much as possible.
Jerry

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