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How to check multiple files exists in a folder or not?
AvinashY (Customer) asked a question. How to check multiple files exists in a folder or not ? i have a folder with different files i.e,different extensions ex: .xls , .xlsx, and .pptx i want to check all these files exists or not in a folder using single IF condition.
Is there limit to number of filenames included in conditional if exist statement?
Possibly you’d want to install a counter and report in the :download procedure if the download is being executed, and if so of which file – and count the number of iterations to stop the process if the download fails too often. An advantage here is that there’s no real limit to the number of filenames that can be included in the parentheses
How to test for the existence of multiple files in Bash?
This one is suitable for use with the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode, no has non-zero exit status when no files are found. The array logfiles= (/var/log/apache2/access.log.*) will always contain at least the unexpanded glob, so one can simply test for existence of the first element:
Is there a way to test multiple files?
To avoid “too many arguments error”, you need xargs. Unfortunately, test -f doesn’t support multiple files. The following one-liner should work: BTW, /var/log/apache2/access.log.* is called shell-globbing, not regexp, please check this: Confusion with shell-globbing wildcards and Regex.
How is it possible to check via a batch script (windows) to check if those files exist and output this? I tried with if exists \\\\path\\file, but it always tells me that the path can not be used syntactically at that point. This is a complete script.
How to check if a file exists in Python?
I know how to use python to check to see if a file exists, but what I am after is trying to see if multiple files of the same name exist throughout my working directory. Take for instance: Is there a pythonic way to use ‘os’ or similiar to check to see if the file ‘example’ can be found in both testarea and homeplace?