On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:12:47PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > why is this script not finding them? > > > wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\* > > if [ -s $wav ]
As others have pointed out because if "/tmp/kde-kline/file1.wav /tmp/kde-kline/file2.wav" is found the -s will fail because $wav isn't a single file. Or it could be that your escaped wildcards are staying escaped. I use something like this to move files out of a Maildir: #!/bin/sh for i in /tmp/kde-kline/*wav do # if nothing or nonsense was found then $i won't exist if [ -e $i ] then echo "Found " $i /bin/rm $i fi done But why do it the hard way? #!/bin/sh /bin/rm /tmp/kde-kline/*wav > /dev/null 2>&1 -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"