Alister Waller wrote:
>
> I should point out that there are 1000's of files in this directory so doing
> an ls of all of them might not be the best way.
then you just start off
for o in a b c d e f g ........x y z
do
> > if [ ! -z $(/bin/ls -1 $o | grep -c .TXT$) ]; then echo pants; fi
done
or whatever.
been there recently. {:-)
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