Bash Script Ques

[Brad De Vries]

--- Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael

Here's one more suggestion to go with the several
you've already received.

#!/bin/sh
FILES=`ls myfile* 2>/dev/null`
if [ ! -z "$FILES" ]; then
  echo "File(s) found"
else
  echo "No files found"
fi

HTH,
Brad.

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