Jamin W. Collins said: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:00:03PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote: > >> 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
Thank you. Took a couple of tries to get the syntax correct but I ended up with this: if [ `ls *.jpg 2>/dev/null|wc -l` -gt 0 ] then for i in *.jpg; do mmv "$i" `date +%s`-$a.jpg; a=a+1; done fi Works beautifully. (I ripped out the directory names to prevent wrapping as that stuff is all buried deep in /home/username/.....) G -- Gerald http://www.phorce1.com http://www.buskatiers.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
