On Tue, September 17, 2013 8:06 pm, Russell Coker wrote:
> ls -l *.mkv *.avi *.mp4
>
> The above command will give me errors if I happen to have no .avi files or
> no
> .mkv files.
>
> How can I write a command to give a list of all video files and not give
> an
> error if some don't exist?  Preferably in bash, but I'm willing to try
> another
> shell if necessary.

You could always redirect the error message to /dev/null e.g.,

lev@racoon:~/Desktop$ ls *.mkv *.avi *.mp4 *.xxx 2> /dev/null
1.mkv  2.mkv  3.avi  4.avi  5.mp4  6.mp4



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