On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 06:13, Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]> wrote: > bash file test -e will tell you if a single file exists but > if [ -e ~/Maildir/.aspambin/cur/* ]; then > will croak with "too many arguments" if there is more than one file
# might be a cleaner way, but this should work... if [ "$(ls ~/Maildir/.aspambin/cur/* 2>/dev/null)" ]; then ... > conversly a construct like > for S in ~/Maildir/.aspambin/cur/* > will attempt to act on a file named * if the directory is empty. How about one of the following?: # doesn't handle files w/ spaces, possible injection for S in $(ls ~/Maildir/.aspambin/cur) ... # handles files with spaces and other problematic characters find ~/Maildir/.aspambin/cur -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 ... Cheers, Daniel Hedlund [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
