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From: Atom Smasher <atom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [[ -f file* ]]
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:14:48 +1200 (NZST)
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if i want to test for the presence of one or more files matching a certainpattern, it seems non-trivial to do it with the normal "test" orconditional 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 nofiles match the pattern, read returns >0.


is there a better way?

thanks...


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