From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 11:46:29 EDT
That'll work, but I still need to put a grep in the script in order to take
action, so it's not really any better than an ls|grep.
Simon Green
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Zimmer [mailto:b.r.zimmer@WORLDNET.ATT.NET]
> Sent: 22 July 2002 15:47
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Scripting: Check existence of file on remote system
>
>
> Try using
>
> rsh "if [ -f <filename> ]; then echo 0; else echo 1; fi"
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM AIX Discussion List
> [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
> > Green, Simon
> > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:13 AM
> > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> > Subject: Scripting: Check existence of file on remote system
> >
> >
> > I'm writing a Korn Shell script and want to check whether a
> specific file
> > exists on a remote server. i.e. rsh remote_server some-command
> >
> > Is there a neater way of doing this than ls and grep? (I don't
> > want to have
> > a script running on the remote server.)
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