From: Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: checking for file existence when I don't know the exact name
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:35:37 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnjaaqd9.ktr.stephane.chazelas@spam.is.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADjGqHvFLBemKQBcKymqiR3yYp1Bh9r02xCD8SfgdNOqTsudCg@mail.gmail.com>
2011-10-24, 09:16(-04), TJ Luoma:
> 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}
[...]
matching_files=(OmniFocus.<->.omnilicense(N))
if (($#matching_files)); then...
--
Stephane
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-24 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-24 13:16 TJ Luoma
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 [this message]
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