On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:07:46PM +1000, Alister Waller
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a quicky if someone could help.
>
> how do I check that a file with a particular extension exists in a directory
> in a shell script.
>
> eg:
>
> if [[ -e *.TXT ]] ; then
That depends what you want to do within that block.
You could use
find -name "*.txt" -exec STH_TO_DO {} \;
If find doesnt find anything it will not execute....
> Using a wildcard does not appear to work.
I think thats because *.txt is expanded (uner the shell) to a number of
files and hence the evaluation is incorrect:
if [[ -e one.TXT two.TXT three.TXT ]] ; then
jobst
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