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 0/0
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