Hai there,

I have a question regarding shell scripting.

I've made a script. In this script i am gonna look if a file in the /etc/apache2/sites-avalaible/ already exists.

I can do a simple GREP but if i enter to look if "www" already exists it gives me a message 'File alredy exists'! Because grep also looks at part of the filenames.

[EXAMPLE]
in the directory is a file named www-test so if i grep for 'www' he also finds www-test.

[QUESTION]
Can i change so that the script only searches for the full entry in that directory and doesn't look for part of the filenames?

[MY SCRIPT]

while true; do
echo -n "Which Domain: "
read DOMAIN

if test -z "$DOMAIN"; then
echo "You didnt entered a Domain!"
elif ls -als /etc/apache2/sites-available/ |grep $DOMAIN; then
echo "Domain already exists!"
else
echo "ok!"
break;
fi


THANKS IN ADVANCED

Tried that but keeps saying domain already exists. any other ideas?

Can you post the script with the "test -f" statement? Maybe there is some ambiguity in the logic.

Hereby:

while true; do
echo -n "Which Domain: "
read DOMAIN

if test -z "$DOMAIN"; then
echo "You didn't entered a Domain!"
elif test -f"$DOMAIN"; then
echo "Domain already exists!"
else
echo "ok!"
break;
fi
done

Just a little typo which do not bring to a syntax error. Put a space between -f and "$DOMAIN" and it should do the trick. In the code above the shell interprets -f"$DOMAIN" as a whole string and the test is always true!

YES!!!! it works! THANKS!!!

What does -f stands for?

test manual page, line 92/93

didn't even knew that there was a man page for. thanks!!!