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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to check if the file exists in directory? Post 302803883 by alister on Tuesday 7th of May 2013 03:41:03 PM
Old 05-07-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Code:
$ ls -1 /home/abc |grep -wf filelist
ddd

Those grep options cannot cope with whitespace nor characters that are special in BRE grammar (most notably, the dot). Instead of -w, I would suggest -xF.

Minor nit: -1 is redundant.

Regards,
Alister
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