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Old 01-11-06, 10:25
vijay253 vijay253 is offline
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Smile AIX Shell script help

Hi,

I am a beginner to Unix environment. I want to check if a file in a directory exists, if it exists have move to archive directory and remove it from the current directory

and material to learn would be helpful

thanks

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Old 01-12-06, 01:06
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Code:
test -f sourcefilename && mv sourcefilename archivedir
see:
http://www.gnoppix.org/pages/rute/no...00000000000000
although it is for Linux the basics are the same
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