check if file exists on remote host with ssh

Question

I would like to check if a certain file exists on the remote host. I tried this:

$ if [ ssh user@localhost -p 19999 -e /home/user/Dropbox/path/Research_and_Devel         


        

Answer 1

I wanted also to check if a remote file exist but with RSH. I have tried the previous solutions but they didn't work with RSH.

Finally, I did I short function which works fine:

function existRemoteFile ()
{
REMOTE=$1
FILE=$2
RESULT=$(rsh -l user $REMOTE  "test -e $FILE && echo \"0\" || echo \"1\"")
if [ $RESULT -eq 0 ]
then
    return 0
else
    return 1
fi
}