As a newbie on AmigaDOS, I am facing some difficulty with the IF command.

I have made a search command for a specific file. If the file exists then I want to start curl, but "IF exist" should point to a specific location according to AmigaDOS manual, whereas I want o search and confirm existence of it and afterwards start curl. Should the search command be executed under "execute"? In any case, how should I format the above IF command?

[ Edited by Cool_amigaN 24.11.2015 - 12:48 ]

Do you use wildcards in the Search command?
If not, you can just do this:
Code:

The search command searches for a specific file without any wildcards throughout sys: (and its sub-directories with ALL enabled).

With IF EXISTS, to my understanding, you need to specify a certain path (whereas the file could have been installed anywhere on sys:). So, I need a structure that will correspond to: "If search finds the file, then execute curl".

[ Edited by Cool_amigaN 24.11.2015 - 19:18 ]

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The Search command returns a status code (0 if file found, 5 (or WARN) otherwise) that you can test for with If, like this:

If NOT WARN
...


- CISC

Like CISC says, use IF WARN, so it could like like this:
Code:

This script searches for the file "filename" in path1 and path2 and all subdirs!