Articles in the Programming/Scripting category show how to write Bash scripts and programs in other languages to perform various functions on Linux.
We love to write Bash scripts because they’re so powerful and very easy to get started with.
The read function allows us to prompt users for input and read that data from within a Bash script on Linux. In this tutorial, you will see multiple examples on how to read input from a Bash script. Read Input From Bash Script Examples Example 1. By using the read command, you can read the […]
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Bash scripts and if statements to check whether or not a file or directory exists. Check if a File Exists Use the -f operator to check if a file exists. This will only check ordinary files, and not directories. #!/bin/bash FILE=”demo/test.txt” if [ -f $FILE ];then
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