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May 7, 2022 at 20:44 comment added Jérôme LAURENS You can also test the existence of a file given its fully qualified path: '/full/path/to/file/' on unix, or relative to the parent. \IfFileExists really means 'If I can read the file': \IfFileExists will execute the false branch if a file exist but you are not authorized to read it.
May 27, 2019 at 9:12 comment added Faheem Mitha @LéoLéopoldHertz준영 LaTeX kernel. No package necessary.
Nov 29, 2016 at 12:58 comment added Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 What is the package here for \IfFileExists?
Oct 14, 2015 at 13:55 comment added yo' @fuenfundachtzig That's quite possible, I didn't check.
Oct 14, 2015 at 13:39 comment added fuenfundachtzig This seems to have problems with underscores in filenames?
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Feb 14, 2013 at 17:56 comment added Bianca Lobo To add to @tohecz answer (I don't believe I can edit yet), I believe that if you want to restrict it to just the current directory, you can use this: \IfFileExists{./filename}{true-branch}{false-branch} and the ./ stops it looking in the other places.
Feb 14, 2013 at 13:40 vote accept DaPhil
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