From: Atom Smasher <atom@smasher.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: [[ -f file* ]]
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:14:48 +1200 (NZST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090518091455.83279.qmail@smasher.org> (raw)
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.
so far this seems like the best way to do it:
{ ls test* } 2> /dev/null | read -k 2 -u 0
if one or more files match the pattern "test*", read returns 0. if no
files match the pattern, read returns >0.
is there a better way?
thanks...
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-18 9:14 Atom Smasher [this message]
2009-05-18 9:36 ` Matt Wozniski
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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