Shell Scripting Tutorial-31: Run Checks On Files

In this tutorial you'll learn to check files by placing test conditions within square brackets.

[sakad]

Hello Madhur. Great tutorial - simple an clear. I hope you read this comments. Maybe you can suggest some scripting problems, some tasks for solving. That would great if after your videos you would say - write a script that It would motivate some people to play with what they learned.

[ramrakshasabani]

Thanks Madhur, wonderful explanation. 

[kannu]

what do u mean by charector special file

[MrMuditgoyal]

Hey Madhur, Thanx for the tutorials. I could'nt see the test statements in your sessions Madhur. And How can we check the different options?

[vishalable]

Hello Madhur,

Why do we use option z?

[prateeksarda]

hey Madhur, thanks for a great tutorial
can you tell me how to get all these necessary option I can use on file check

[Yuvaraj-rsfm]

Hi Madhur! \n, \t, \c these are not working in my terminal. I'm using powershell. These are working in printf statement but not on echo statement. could you please help

[cindybclark]

What would be nice would be if the text was down here in the comments--I'd like to play with it but why retype? Why not just allow a cut and paste? Otherwise though, nicely done!

[Slter]

The escape character don't work for me. I'm using ubuntu 14.04 any advice?

[AbhishumatThakur]

I'm stuck on this one. Am using a mac and created the shell file using Xcode but my terminal isn't able to differentiate between files and directories.
This is the code I used

echo "Enter a name:\c"
read $fname
if [ -f $fname ]
then
echo "well done boy"
else
echo "Damn you man..Dont you know the difference"
fi

What am I doing wrong ??

[pallaanji]

how can we give all the permission at a time

[pallaanji]

how can we check a file inside a directory 

[kannu]

none works except file and directory option