From: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: checking for file existence when I don't know the exact name
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:16:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADjGqHvFLBemKQBcKymqiR3yYp1Bh9r02xCD8SfgdNOqTsudCg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I want to check to see if a file exists that matches this pattern:
OmniFocus-XXXXX.omnilicense
where XXXXX is some set of numbers of an unknown length.
I've been using
ls | egrep -q "OmniFocus.*\.omnilicense"
but it occurs to me that I might be able to use [[ -e ]]
However, I'm not sure what the syntax is. I tried:
if [[ -e "OmniFocus.*.omnilicense" ]]
then
{take action here}
fi
but that did not work. Do I have the syntax wrong or do I need to make sure
that some setting is enabled?
Thanks!
TjL
next reply other threads:[~2011-10-24 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-24 13:16 TJ Luoma [this message]
2011-10-24 13:29 ` Jérémie Roquet
2011-10-24 14:25 ` TJ Luoma
2011-10-24 14:59 ` Jérémie Roquet
2011-10-24 15:35 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-10-24 13:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-10-24 13:41 ` Stephane CHAZELAS
2011-10-24 14:36 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-10-24 13:35 ` Stephane CHAZELAS
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