Re: bash if file exists

["David Rosenstrauch" <user=20@nabble.blu.org>]

 Ben Eisenbraun wrote: 
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:55:36PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: 
>> Which can be further simplified to: 
>> 
>> if ls *.zip >/dev/null 2>&1; then 
> 
> That's probably more elegant on some level than my $?.  Derek's test of the 
> ls exit status embedded in the if statement jogged my memory for another 
> method: 
> 
> ls *.zip > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo 'zips!' || echo 'zippo!' 
> 
> There ends up being a tradeoff between brevity and legibility at some 
> point, but I don't think we've hit it yet.  Anyone got a shorter one? 
> 
> :-) 
> 
> -b