Check for file existance

From: Andreas
Subject: Check for file existance
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:49:46 +0000
Message-ID: <KbPhc.56899$mU6.234367@newsb.telia.net>

Hello

Is there any way to easily check for file existance using Lisp? I want to
make my call like this

does-file-exists("filename")

Thanks in advance

/Andreas

Re: Check for file existance Russell McManus
Re: Check for file existance Jeremy Yallop
Thanks! Andreas
Re: Check for file existance Espen Vestre
Re: Check for file existance Arthur Lemmens
Re: Check for file existance Thomas A. Russ

From: Russell McManus
Subject: Re: Check for file existance
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:01:55 +0000
Message-ID: <874qrcdv3w.fsf@thelonious.dyndns.org>

"Andreas" <········@telia.com> writes:

> Is there any way to easily check for file existance using Lisp? I want to
> make my call like this
>
> does-file-exists("filename")
> Thanks in advance

CL-USER> (probe-file "/etc/hosts")
#P"/etc/hosts"

-russ

From: Jeremy Yallop
Subject: Re: Check for file existance
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:59:05 +0000
Message-ID: <slrnc8fgcp.8h6.jeremy@maka.cl.cam.ac.uk>

Andreas wrote:
> Is there any way to easily check for file existance using Lisp? 

http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/fun_probe-file.html

> I want to make my call like this
> 
> does-file-exists("filename")

(probe-file "filename")

Jeremy.

From: Andreas
Subject: Thanks!
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:24:37 +0000
Message-ID: <pIPhc.56902$mU6.234354@newsb.telia.net>

From: Espen Vestre
Subject: Re: Check for file existance
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:50:55 +0000
Message-ID: <kwoepkqiq8.fsf@merced.netfonds.no>

"Andreas" <········@telia.com> writes:

> Is there any way to easily check for file existance using Lisp? 

yes, probe-file
-- 
  (espen)

From: Arthur Lemmens
Subject: Re: Check for file existance
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:55:49 +0000
Message-ID: <opr6uzjbt1k6vmsw@news.xs4all.nl>

Andreas wrote:

> Is there any way to easily check for file existance using Lisp?

PROBE-FILE

--
Arthur Lemmens

From: Thomas A. Russ
Subject: Re: Check for file existance
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:08:49 +0000
Message-ID: <ymivfjrr7gu.fsf@sevak.isi.edu>

PROBE-FILE

-- 
Thomas A. Russ,  USC/Information Sciences Institute