On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Jason White <[email protected]> wrote: > Matthew Cengia <[email protected]> wrote: > > mattcen@isis:tmp$ shopt -s nullglob > > mattcen@isis:tmp$ ls *.mkv *.mp4 *.avi > > a.mkv b.mp4 > > Excellent.
Yes, Matthew's suggestion works really well for interactive use. I couldn't work out how to make it run from a Makefile though. > Note that the find command also returns no errors if nothing > matches the search criteria. There's an option to prevent it from > recursively descending subdirectories, which my quick search of the manual > page didn't locate but which I'm confident exists. find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.mkv" -o -name "*.avi" -o -name "*.mp4" Good idea, the above does what I need. Thanks for the suggestion. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
