bash script file test operators.

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Take into account the main readme for this section. README first.

See the The GNU bash documentation for more test operators at: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Conditional-Expressions.html

Code.

$ cat learnbash.sh 
#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter a full pathname: " Pathname

if [ -f "$Pathname" ]
then
   echo "I'm a file"
else
   echo "I'm not a file"
fi

Run the script.

$ ./learnbash.sh 
Enter a full pathname: /usr/bin/zsh
I'm a file
$ ./learnbash.sh 
Enter a full pathname: /usr/bin
I'm not a file