Re: bash if file exists

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

 On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:51:58PM -0400, Mark Richards wrote: 
> David Rosenstrauch wrote: 
> >Matt Brodeur wrote: 
> >>Just because you don't have *enough* different answers yet: 
> >> 
> >>   set -- *.zip 
> >>   if [ -f "${1}" ] ; then 
> > 
> >Por favor - could you explain this one? 
> 
> Set the parameter list to all files meeting the specification. 
> Test to see if ${1} is a valid file and then 
> do something with it. 
> 
> ${1} could be iterated through so you can get each file. 
> 
> Pretty good for chicken scratch.