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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: [[ -f file* ]]
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:40:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090518114040.GN15982@fsst.voodoo.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17393e3e0905180236v424b14d5ua9d364501662c75a@mail.gmail.com>

Matt Wozniski <godlygeek@gmail.com>:
> 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.

How about this:

[snip]
set -- test*(N)
(( $# > 0 ))
[snap]

Regards, Frank

-- 
In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
                                                  -- RFC 1925


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-18 11:42 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
2009-05-18  9:55   ` Peter Stephenson
2009-05-18 11:35   ` Atom Smasher
2009-05-18 11:40   ` Frank Terbeck [this message]

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