Check if file exist Linux bash
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Solution 1
You are using absolute paths in your test while you should be using relative paths:
if [ -e ./temp/file.txt ]; then
Solution 2
/temp/file.txt
vs /docs/text/temp/file.txt
?
Solution 3
You script looks in /temp
while you are looking in /docs/text/temp
Author by
Painguy
Updated on June 08, 2022Comments
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Painguy about 2 years
So I'm trying to check if a file exists or not and then the script is supposed to do something if it does. The problem I'm having is actually getting it to recognize that something is actually there.
if [ -e /temp/file.txt ]; then echo "file found!" sudo cp -r temp/* extra else echo "file not found! Creating new one..." ./create.sh fi
below is an example of the files in the directory I'm testing. they are clearly there, but for some reason I can't get the script to see that. what am I doing wrong?
nima@mkt:/docs/text$ ls -a temp . .. more file.txt file2.txt