SKIP-IF-FILE-EXISTS(1)

💖 SKIP-IF-FILE-EXISTS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual, where we have a tiny little icon of a utility called skip-if-file-exists and she is so useful, no cap 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

skip-if-file-exists — filters out lines that name files that already exist 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

skip-if-file-exists

literally that's it. no flags, no args, no drama. she takes it all from stdin 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: skip-if-file-exists reads a list of potential filenames from standard input (one per line, bestie, one per line 🌈) and then prints on standard output those lines naming files that do not (yet) exist.

it's giving "vibe check but for your filesystem" 😭 if the file's already there, she ghosts it. if it's not there yet, she keeps it and passes it along. iconic behavior, honestly.

ngl this is the "don't re-download what you already have" queen 👑

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• nquire(1) — go say hi, iykyk 💜

and that's the whole page, periodt 💀✨ written under the NCBI banner, dated 2020-10-03, and it's part of the NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual — so go forth and skip those files, you absolute main character 👑🌸