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Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:27:56PM -0400, Eric Chadbourne wrote: >> Hi all. Help I'm having a brain freeze. How come this doesn't work? >> Thanks. - Eric C. >> >> if [ -a *.zip ] ; >> then >> echo "there is a zip"; >> else >> echo " no zip found"; >> fi > > Because your shell expands *.zip to all the matching files. > > The rewritten version is thus: > > if [ -a aber.zip wiggle.zip foo.zip zippetydodah.zip ] > > which obviously doesn't work, right? > > You need a for loop. > > -dsr-
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