Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:36:26 -0700, Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hongyi Zhao on 1/9/2009 6:38 AM: But I cann't figure this out, see the following results on my box: $ echo [ -f *.cache-2 ] [ -f *.cache-2 ] That means there aren't

Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hongyi Zhao on 1/10/2009 3:05 AM: $ touch a.cache-2 b.cache-2 $ echo [ -f *.cache-2 ] [ -f a.cache-2 b.cache-2 ] In your example, considering that the a.cache-2 and b.cache-2 have been created by touch command, both the [ -f

Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hongyi Zhao on 1/8/2009 8:55 PM: if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm *.cache-2 But it seems that this -f parameter in the _if_ command will not work with wildcard, i.e., the _[ -f *.cache-2 ]_ isn't a valid arg. Any hints on this issue? Not

Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:12:27 -0700, Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hongyi Zhao on 1/8/2009 8:55 PM: if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm *.cache-2 But it seems that this -f parameter in the _if_ command will not work with wildcard, i.e., the _[

Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hongyi Zhao on 1/9/2009 6:38 AM: But I cann't figure this out, see the following results on my box: $ echo [ -f *.cache-2 ] [ -f *.cache-2 ] That means there aren't any *.cache-2 files in your directory. Next, try this: $ touch

Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hongyi Zhao wrote: I want to delete the all of the cache-2 files under a directory, so I use the following line to do this: if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm *.cache-2 But it seems that this -f parameter in the _if_ command will not work with

Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:01:26 -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hongyi Zhao wrote: I want to delete the all of the cache-2 files under a directory, so I use the following line to do this: if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm

Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:55:46AM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote: Hi all, I want to delete the all of the cache-2 files under a directory, so I use the following line to do this: if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm *.cache-2 But it seems that this -f parameter in the _if_ command will not work with wildcard,

Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 00:42:21 -0500, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:55:46AM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote: Hi all, I want to delete the all of the cache-2 files under a directory, so I use the following line to do this: if [ -f *.cache-2