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From: ian@hpopd.HP.COM (Ian Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: testing if a file is present
Message-ID: <28770002@hpopd.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 90 14:08:41 GMT
References: <ger.659126250@prisma>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard ING-PWD, UK.
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For the Bourne shell, try :

if [ -f file ] ; then
	mv file otherfile
fi

see test(1) for more details and other useful options.

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