Re: bash if file exists

["Matthew J. Brodeur" <user=126@nabble.blu.org>]

 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 

Just because you don't have *enough* different answers yet: 

   set -- *.zip 
   if [ -f "${1}" ] ; then 
     echo "there is a zip"; 
   else 
     echo " no zip found"; 
   fi 

I had (basically) the same problem in one of my "why the heck isn't 
this in a real language" scripts recently. 

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