Llinux Shell Script to check if a file exists

Here a linux shell script which can be used to find if a file exists or not at a given location.

#!/bin/bash echo "Enter the file name to be find if it exists in the current directory" echo "OR" echo "Enter the full path to search for file any other directory" read name ls $name 2&>1 /dev/null if [ $? -gt 0 ] then echo "File $name does not exist" else echo "File $name exists" fi

Save the file as checkifFileExist.sh and execute it as shown below.

$ bash checkifFileExist.sh Enter the file name to be find if it exists in the current directory OR Enter the full path to search for file any other directory

When prompted enter the file name if you want to check in the current directory or enter the full path to where the presence of the file has to be checked, and the script will show if the file exists or not .

hello File hello does not exist

We can use the following script if we want to pass the file name to be searched for as a command line argument. #!/bin/bash ls $1 2&>1 /dev/null if [ $? -gt 0 ] then echo "File $1 does not exist" else echo "File $1 exists" fi

Save the file as checkifFileExist.sh and execute it as shown below.

$ bash checkifFileExist.sh file1 File file1 exists