testing if a file is present

Wm E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at sixhub.UUCP
Fri Nov 23 14:08:55 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov21.155149.3505 at informix.com> dberg at informix.com (David I. Berg) writes:

| -z if filename is zero length,

  Actually -z (zero length) and -n (non-zero length) apply to any string
following the operator, although it certainly applies to filename in strings.
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