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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 It's already been explained why this fails... Other solutions exist, however this one is one of the simplest: foo=`echo *.zip |grep -v '*\.zip'` if [ -n "$foo" ]; then echo "there is a zip" else echo "there is no zip" fi In very unusual circumstances (i.e. if you have an actual file whose name contains the exact string "*.zip") the above can fail. Using '*' in file names is rare, precisely because it's a wildcard character, so in practice it's probably fine. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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