Re^2: One liner to test existance of a file

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if i use

q{if [ -e /.firstboot ] ; then echo 1 ; else echo 0 ; fi}
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i get:

0 root@baseline-dc1:~#

The required output should be: 0 with NO new line, or carriage return, or space. somehow (i think) due to Net::SSH::Expect the prompt of the remote system is being appended to $stat hence i need to remove it

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Re^3: One liner to test existance of a file by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 15, 2010 at 02:55 UTC
That command does not output that at all. `-n` prevents `echo` from outputting a newline. As for the prompt, it comes from the shell. Don't run a shell interactively, hide its prompt, waitfor it, or `exec` a shell to execute the command, causing the connection to drop after the output has been obtained.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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