Bash Script Ques

[David Aikema]

On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 02:28  PM, Michael Hipp wrote:

> Hello, first post (in a long time) ...
>
> I thought to do something like:
>
> if [ -f myfile* ]; then
>    # do something
> fi
>
> That's to find if there are one or more like myfile001, myfile002, but 
> it reports an error "too many arguments" if there is more than one. 
> Any simple/elegant way to do this?

Well, with a wildcard at the end there it seems unlikely that such an 
expression could ever return true in any case.

You're probably stuck with
if [ -f myfile001 ] || [ -f myfile002 ] ...; then
	# do something
fi

Maybe one of those on the list who are more experienced with Bash 
scripting can offer you a better solution.

David Aikema