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
--
lfr
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