BASh help

[Luciano Rocha]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:13:10AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> I've got a script that's not behaving itself. I know it's something
> silly, but I can't figure it out.  The script is just a for loop that
> runs through a text file list of files (/directory/filename format) and
> does an 'ls' on each one.  The problem is, I /want/ the script to NOT
> find those files, i.e., those files shouldn't be there.  That part
> works, but I can't dump the output of that into a text file.
> 
> Basically ls dumps all the 'file or directory not found' straight to the
> console and not to the text file when I redirect output to it:
> 
> ./missingfiles.sh > testfile.txt
> 
> I get this output:
> 
> ls: cannot access /home2/test/20070829/KVNX20070829_225943_744_3.bz2: No
> such file or directory

use test -e "$file" (or [ -e "$file" ]):

while read file; do
	[ -e "$file" ] || echo "file $file exists"
done < testfile.txt

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lfr
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