An unnamed Administration source, Michael Hipp, wrote:
> Hello, first post (in a long time) ...
>
> I thought to do something like:
>
> if [ -f myfile* ]; then
> # do something
> fi
I get the same error here. It is the [ that's issuing the error
message (yes, "[" is an actual program, a synonym for "test").
> That's to find if there are one or more like myfile001, myfile002, but
> it reports an error "too many arguments" if there is more than one. Any
> simple/elegant way to do this?
cnt=$(ls -1 myfile* | wc -l)
if [ $cnt -ge 1 ] ; then
echo �only 1"
else
echo "more than 1: $cnt"
done
That's a numeric one, not an ell. Consider:
$ ls [zZ]*
zcat* zegrep* zforce* zipcloak* zipnote* zmore* Zoo*
zcmp* zeisstopnm* zgrep* zipgrep* zipsplit* znew* zsoelim*
zdiff* zfgrep* zip* zipinfo* zless* zoo*
The script xx has that little program in it
$ cnt=$(ls -1 z* | wc -l) && echo $cnt
19
$ cnt=$(ls -1 Z* | wc -l) && echo $cnt
1
Kurt
--
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Any cook who swears in French.
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