Alex Young wrote:
> Here's what I use:
>
>
> DIRTOTAL=`ls $PATH | grep [^*$] -c`
> if [ $DIRTOTAL -ne 0 ];
then
That works.
> On Feb 11, 2011, at 6:14 AM,
Michael Rasmussen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Goal:
to execute a block if one or more files exists
>
> 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
>
>
>
conversly a construct like
> for S in ~/Maildir/.aspambin/cur/*
> will attempt to act on a file named * if the directory is empty.
>
> So before I go convert this to Perl and for the learning
>
> What kind of bash/shell script contruct works on 0, 1, or
more files?
>
>
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