On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:00:03PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > And I've bumped into this. How *DOES* one test for the existence of > ANY file with a given extension without getting a "too many arguments" > error when there are multiple files? > > I want "TRUE" if there is one or more zzz.jpg files in a directory, > "FALSE" if there are zero of them.
Assuming you don't want the names of the files, just whether they are there or not: ls *.ext 2> /dev/null | wc -l If there are no files you get a 0, if there are you get the number of them. Thus a non-zero result means TRUE and a zero result means FALSE. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
