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Hi,

How to check the existance of a particular file resideing in the file system from within a C program?

I'm working on Linux platform. Do you think you can help me?

Thanks

Nivantha Gunaherath

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There are many ways to do that. And I list 3 of them here:
1. Open the directory and search for the particular file.
2. Use stat() function.
3. Try to open the file in read mode and if it opens without error, then the file is existing.

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