Re: bash if file exists

["Ben Eisenbraun" <user=82@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:26:38PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: 
> 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 

And in the spirit of "there's more than one way to do it", here's a 
variation on Derek's method: 

ls *.zip > /dev/null 2>&1 
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then 
  echo "there is a zip" 
else 
  echo "zippo" 
fi 

-b 

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it.                                                   <benjamin franklin> 

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