Hello William,
I'm no expert in shell scripting, but why not just do:
if [ -f *.txt ]; then echo "yes" else echo "no" ; fi
HTH,
André
On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:35 PM, William Windels wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can someone help me with a litle bash-script?
>
> I would like to test if there is a txt-file in the current working directory.
>
> I was thinking about the following code for the bashscript:
>
> var=${ls *.txt} && if [ -n "$var" ]; then echo "yes" else echo "no" ; fi
>
> The error I have here is:
> ${ls *.txt}: bad substitution
>
> the -n options looks if the variable is not empty , I think.
>
> Could someone help me pls?
>
> Thx for your help,
>
> best regards,
> William Windels
>
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