How To Check If A File Exists In Linux Bash Scripts
Don’t Assume Anything When you’re writing a script you can’t make assumptions about what is and isn’t present on a computer. That’s doubly true if the script is going to be distributed and run on many different computers. Sooner or later, the script will run on a computer that doesn’t meet your assumptions, and the script will fail or run unpredictably. Everything we value or create on a computer is stored in a file of some format, and all of those files reside in a directory....