From: Matt Wozniski <godlygeek@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: [[ -f file* ]]
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 05:36:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17393e3e0905180236v424b14d5ua9d364501662c75a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090518091455.83279.qmail@smasher.org>
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Atom Smasher wrote:
> if i want to test for the presence of one or more files matching a certain
> pattern, it seems non-trivial to do it with the normal "test" or conditional
> expressions.
...
> is there a better way?
Well, off the top of my head, I can think of
[ -n "$(print -- test*(N))" ]
but even that seems inelegant; I'm sure someone can chime in with
something better.
~Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-18 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-18 9:14 Atom Smasher
2009-05-18 9:36 ` Matt Wozniski [this message]
2009-05-18 9:55 ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-18 11:35 ` Atom Smasher
2009-05-18 11:40 ` Frank Terbeck
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