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From: =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsOpbWllIFJvcXVldA==?= <arkanosis@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:29:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: checking for file existence when I don't know the exact name
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Cc: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
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Hi,

2011/10/24 TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
> 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 su=
re
> that some setting is enabled?

>>From the man, section =E2=80=9Cconditional expressions=E2=80=9D :

 =E2=80=9CFile generation is not  performed on any form of argument to cond=
itions.=E2=80=9D

Best regards,

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J=C3=A9r=C3=A9mie