Simple bash if then else example

01 Feb 2010

if [ -r somefile ]; then 
   content=$(cat somefile) 
elif [ -f somefile ]; then 
   echo "The file 'somefile' exists but is not readable to the script." 
else 
   echo "The file 'somefile' does not exist." 
fi 

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