Re: bash if file exists

["Cole Tuininga" <user=105@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 18:55 -0400, Derek Martin wrote: 
> Which can be further simplified to: 
> 
> if ls *.zip >/dev/null 2>&1; then 
>   echo yes 
> else 
>   echo no 
> fi 

Depending on the number of zip files, you could run afoul of having too 
long a command line from the "ls *.zip".  I believe that using "echo" 
instead, would not have such a problem.  (Corrections welcome) 

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