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How to Check if a File Exists in bash

When you are working on a shell script in bash, there are cases where you want to check if a particular file exists (or does not exist) in a directory, and then perform an action based on the condition.

In bash, there are several ways to check whether or a file exists. This tutorial demonstrates bash shell script examples for this use case.

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