Re: bash if file exists

["Mark Richards-3" <user=151@nabble.blu.org>]

 David Rosenstrauch wrote: 
> Matt Brodeur wrote: 
>> 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 
> 
> Por favor - could you explain this one?