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-f in shell script

rachelgreen answered on March 31, 2022 Popularity 8/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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#-f in shell script is used to check if a file exists or not

filename=/home/root/sample.txt
if [ -f $filename ]
 then
     echo "File exists"
 else
     echo "File doesn't exists"
 fi
 
 Note: You can directly give the file name inside brackets.

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